And there are some programmers that approach being brilliant within the tunnel-visioned silo of their project’s *end* goal, but have never had experience with the big picture on how EVERYTHING needs to play nice together, and may not care or ever learn.
Kind of like one developer years ago that wrote what appeared to the business managers as a fantastic point of sale system, but it kept a local journal/file with ALL transactional data to facilitate returns and credits. This was before the OLTP on a central database, stores were polled twice weekly for sales data. All POS stations would share their journal with others in the same store, and this proved a 100% solution to handling the returns and credits issue. But never did develop in a way to automatically truncate the journal/log after a reasonable time ( 3 to 7 days, refund period ) and proved a HUGE security risk of customer credit card information as months of data would accumulate on the hard drive before anyone ran a manual database maintenance routine. Simple security procedure to implement into the code but was never considered as the developer was never concerned with anything outside of his silo, and it wasn’t within his manager’s silo either … sad reality of the real world. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 12:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Applicability of the OSI model (was: Big Changes) Not likely. Besides, have you not noticed a downward trend in skill levels across the board? We're just not making IT professionals like we used to... -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
