Way back in the day I used to manage IT infrastructure for a number of small organizations. It was challenging but interesting work, and it paid the bills at the time - but there is absolutely no way I would want to manage IT, and more specifically IT security, for anyone today.
Not only do you have to worry about staying compliant with regulations A, B and C - and watch out for the hefty fine if you don't - but you also need to work with a new breed of information-savvy employees. And boy are these guys challenging!
Never mind just bring your own device (BYOD for the uninitiated) to sort out, they want to be able to communicate - nay collaborate - with anyone and everyone. AND they want to be able to use social media to communicate. AND
![Information Security Report](/_h/ImageResolver.ashx?folder=85DFEBDD6DD24B81ADD56105D3737AC7&file=OpenText-InfoSec-Cover)
they expect to do it on all of the business applications. How unreasonable is that?
Well - personally I think it is perfectly
reasonable - but that's not to say it's easy to
achieve. However, help is at hand - a recent
AIIM publication "Information Security for the
Modern Enterprise" plots a route through this minefield and delivers a series of recommendations for how to start addressing these issues. The report is free to download and is available here.
But no - I'm still not managing your network for you!
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