http://www.cutawaysecurity.com/blog/archives/177 Cutaway's Observations, Opinions, Rants, Raves, Tantrums, and Tirades Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:30:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.cutawaysecurity.com/blog/archives/177/comment-page-1#comment-25616 Toivo Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:08:58 +0000 http://www.cutawaysecurity.com/blog/archives/177#comment-25616 At my university, the shortcoming largely lies in the lack of president-level initiative. Lacking that, there is no-one with organization-wide authority to do anything with IT, including security. In fact, many campuses, colleges and deans guard their computing turf very jealously, with the (not entirely unjustified) assumption that if they don't, they will loose significant budget and control over technology decisions and they would have to live with what some central organization decides to give them, rather than what they need. Regardless, the security situation can be extremely frustrating as a result of this. At my university, the shortcoming largely lies in the lack of president-level initiative. Lacking that, there is no-one with organization-wide authority to do anything with IT, including security. In fact, many campuses, colleges and deans guard their computing turf very jealously, with the (not entirely unjustified) assumption that if they don’t, they will loose significant budget and control over technology decisions and they would have to live with what some central organization decides to give them, rather than what they need. Regardless, the security situation can be extremely frustrating as a result of this.

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