Outsourcing Information Security 196
Outsourcing Information Security | |
author | C. Warren Axelrod |
pages | 248 |
publisher | Artech House |
rating | 10 |
reviewer | Ben Rothke |
ISBN | 1580535313 |
summary | Examines security risks related to IT security outsourcing |
When it comes to the outsourcing of information security functions specifically, the situation is even worse. Far too few organizations know the inherent risks involved with outsourcing security, and don't properly investigate what they are getting into. The same company that makes it nearly impossible for an employee to enter the office supply closet to get much needed toner cartridge will outsource their intrusion detection, email and firewall systems without a blink.
One of the many reasons companies turn to security outsourcing and managed security services providers (MSSP) is to use their limited internal security staff for more interesting areas such as web development, VPN and e-commerce applications. They will then outsource the boring activities such as firewall and IDS monitoring and maintenance to a MSSP.
Given that activities such as firewall monitoring and administering an IDS in large enterprise requires 24/7 support, it is not unusual for a company to want to outsource such activities; monitoring and administering are not core functions of most organizations.
The trouble comes from the lack of due care often given to choosing a MSSP. With that, Outsourcing Information Security is a long-overdue book that asks the questions that are necessary before an organization decides to outsource any information security function.
The author's general tone is against the outsourcing of information security; but provides readers with the various benefits and risks involved in outsourcing security, and let's them ultimate decide if outsourcing security is right for their organization. It is the reader who must define, evaluate and manage those risks and determine if outsourcing is a viable solution. These include technology, business and legal risks.
The book comprises nine chapters and three appendices totaling a bit under 250 pages. The first two chapters provide a good introduction to and overview of outsourcing and information security, and the associated security risks.
Chapter 3 details various reasons why outsourcing information security makes sense. The chapter includes various tables and references to the many reasons why a company would want to outsource security.
Chapter 4 takes the other side and analyzes the risks of outsourcing. The chapter details the traditional risks, in addition to other factors such as hidden costs, broken promises, phantom benefits and more. The book shows that while many organizations hand over information security responsibility to their MSSP, when things go wrong, they can't effectively blame the MSSP. When things go wrong -- and they will -- all of the fingers in the world can be pointed at the MSSP, but the ultimate responsibility falls on the organization itself. With outsourced security, if something goes wrong, those fingers will point back to the company's security manager, not the incompetent firewall administrator in Bangalore.
The chapter provides a balanced look at the risk of outsourcing, and while calm in its overall approach, the chapter should at least make the person considering outsourcing information security think twice. In fact, the author concludes the chapter by stating "when all of the risks of outsourcing are considered, one wonders how anyone ever makes the decision to use a third party." Nonetheless, there is plenty of evidence that many security activities are indeed outsourced to MSSP, and are often satisfactory from both the buyer's and seller's perspective.
Chapters 5 and 6 provide a thorough summary of the costs and benefits of outsourcing, and provides a method with which to categorize them. The chapter is well suited for a CFO with its discussion of direct vs. indirect costs, controllable vs. non-controllable costs, and much more. These two chapters show that creating meaningful financial numbers to see if outsourcing makes financial sense is not such an easy task. It is important to understand that outsourcing sometimes makes financial sense, but certainly not all the time. For those organizations that don't crunch the numbers seriously at the beginning, these costs can later come back to haunt them in a big way.
Chapters 7 and 8 detail the processes involved in commencing an outsourcing project, from requirements gathering to placing policy against the outsourced company. A mistake many organizations make is failure to ensure that the MSSP is abiding by the client's information security policies, rather than their own.
Similarly, one of the most overlooked areas of outsourcing information security functionality is regulation. A U.S. company may be under numerous regulations, from HIPAA to Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, SEC and more; when they outsource their security functionality, the remote technician may not be under the jurisdiction of the SEC; but the corporate data still must be protected according to those regulations.
The main part of the book concludes with chapter 9, which provides a 20-step process to determine if an outsourced security solution is appropriate. In seven pages, the author specifies the various events, tasks and steps that make up the typical outsourcing project.
Appendix A provides a breakdown of the various services that can be outsourced, with Appendices B & C providing brief histories of IT Outsourcing and Information Security.
The only downside to the book is its $85.00 price, which is at the high-end for technology and business books. While the price is high, the book is a huge value for anyone considering outsourcing security. The book asks the questions that are often never asked, and details how the outsourcing of information security is not the slam-dunk that the MSSPs often portray it to be.
For those who know what their security issues are and look to outsource their security functionality to a trusted MSSP, Outsourcing Information Security shows how it can be done. On the other side, for those who are drunk with the panacea that outsourcing security is supposed to provide, Outsourcing Information Security will be a sobering wake-up call.
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good! (Score:2, Funny)
Practiced in the Art of Deception.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Danger of China (Score:5, Insightful)
Are you really this naive?
Your bank will answer "Sir, we are doing everything in our power to protect your privacy", or "the contractors with work with are fully accredited by us to handle your personal data" or something sybilline like this. They'd never admit flatly that they outsource to a shitty data center in a third world country. If they did, there'd be no problem since people would walk out the door without a second thought.
Re:Danger of China (Score:4, Interesting)
Anyone remember the story about how a Pakistani medical services person was holding up some records for ransom? Turned out that an SF hospital had outsourced their medical record transcription to a Sausalito (just north of SF) firm which outsourced some of this work to a Florida company which outsourced some of this work to a Texas company which outsourced some of this work to this Pakistani person.
No, seriously, think I'm engaging in hyperbole here? Check this out:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=
So if you asked UCSF Medical Center "do you outsource information processing to China or India?" they'd honestly be able to say say "Oh, hell no! In fact, we even require our contractors not outsource anything to those countries or to anyone who outsources anything to those countries!"
Bleh.
For me... (Score:5, Insightful)
Home-cooked and cafeteria; sure you'll eat just fine at the end of the day, but chances are the cafeteria food will taste bad, cost less in the short term (efforts + money) but more in the long term, and doesn't have the nice 'home' feeling.
And you're never sure if the cook is on a bad day and spit in your soup (security allusion, for those who don't get it).
Re:For me... (Score:5, Funny)
That's right: I just had papadams, lamb vindaloo and a kingfisher tonight and I can really feel outsourcing going on in my tummy!
Outsaucing (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry, the joke was just waiting to be said.
Re:For me... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:For me... (Score:2, Funny)
But, sometimes if my wife is pissed at me, I am a little suspicious and think about eating out.
- Mr. Clinton
Re:For me... (Score:2)
Re:For me... (Score:2, Insightful)
Doing something like security badly may be far worse than letting someone else do it well.
Re:For me... (Score:2, Insightful)
The point I always try to emphasize to people is that the you can benefit from trade in services in precisely the same way that you benefit from the trading of goods. The law of comparitive advantage still applies.
Although, what you say is true. There are some added risks to "ordering out", but that doesn'
A book about information technology (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A book about information technology (Score:3, Insightful)
cannot be complete without chapter 11.
Which is what you're likely to get if you turn the keys to the company over to people without any personal interest in the company or its future. Of course the CEO will then use his/her golden parachute and retire to spend more time with their family after all that exhausting CEO-ing.
But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:2)
Re:But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:4, Insightful)
But, outsourcing really swelled as a fad after the 911 attacks. I think of outsourcing and offshoring now as a businessman selling short on America
Re:But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:2)
You don't have to worry about that. The chances of a genuinely 'Socialist' movement within the United States having any notable influence are nil.
Or perhaps you meant 'socialist' as shorthand for anything even slightly against the grain of the free market. No American government has ever been remotely socialist; it's all right-wing, just a question of degree.
BTW, do you seriously think that the risk from terrorism is an
Re:But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:2)
Yes, I did. However, this thing with your statement:
[n]o American government has ever been remotely socialist; it's all right-wing
Re:But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:2)
What I intended to convey (with no moral judgement) is that America has never been anything close to a socialist society. Americans themselves may disagree, but with respect, US political opinion is skewed to the right (relative to the rest of the world overall) and anything smacking of government interference is likely to be labelled "socialist", "communist" or whatever. Some moderately left-wi
Re:But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:5, Insightful)
When it gets to the point that companies have laid off enough workers, they will realize that the workers are customers of the economy and without jobs people don't buy much.
Companies don't outsource jobs, company executives outsource jobs. Companies don't "realize" anything, and the CxOs don't care. Why don't people understand that the so-called *leaders* of corporate America (and government) don't care about anything except personal fortunes? Once they've got theirs, they couldn't care less what happens to the company or the "workers". How many executives have to be indicted or jailed before it's obvious? (And those are only the ones stupid enough to get caught.)
That's a rather broad brush (Score:2)
What about the second wealthiest person in America [forbes.com]? What about the members of Responsible Wealth [responsiblewealth.org]? What about Gordon Moore, who in addition to founding Intel, has been giving away huge sums of money for decades? What about these 50 philanthropists [businessweek.com]?
As for politicians, having worked in Washington, D.C., I can tell you that the vast majority of the elected and ap
Re:That's a rather broad brush (Score:2)
Comparing Mother Theresa to anyone is ludicrous. The woman is headed for sainthood. But it's not as if Gordon Moore raped and pillaged his way to huge fortune. He built one of the companies that was responsible for the microcomputer revolution, which ushered in millions of jobs for people not just in America, but around the globe. What does Gordon Moore have on his conscience? How could you possibly know if he has more on his conscience than you do?
As for your supposed knowledge of
Re:But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:2, Informative)
Please explain (Score:2)
I would like to hear the explanation of this statement.
Re: (Score:2)
Re:But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:3, Funny)
<mods, it's a joke. laugh.>
Re:But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:4, Insightful)
So, is that what he knows about? I was wondering if there was any knowledge lurking in that cavernous brain of his.
He won the electoral vote and the popular vote for a reason: people believe in his vision for the economy.
He won the election because some people believe in his vision for the economy, and a whole lot more people are terrified of homosexuals.
Re:But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:2)
Not only that, but I'm sure that there's a slashdotter or two who has or is considering feeding this email address to a spammer.
My guess is that some unsuspecting liberal is getting spam for dinner tonight.
Re:But outsourcing is good and creates jobs. (Score:2)
He won the electoral vote and the popular vote for a reason: people believe in his vision for the economy.
According the post-election polls, the economy didn't have squat to do with it. Most people indicated it was about moral issues and character. Nobody in their right mind would vote for Bush based on his handling of the economy or his administration's view that all exports are good -- including jobs.
I welcome correspondence with other young Republicans
I'm an old Republican, and I call 'em like I
At 85$ a go (Score:5, Insightful)
That aside though I think its about time people quit whining about how inherently evil outsourcing is. Many companies outsource everything from cleaning and security to payrole and management advise.
Of course if you outsource security there is a risk, just the same as you risk one of your own employees fucking you over if you keep it in house. Proper investigation and dilligence are required. Thats not to say outsourcing is an inherently bad thing. In many cases companies will gain from outsourcing to specialist companies who can offer greater competency than could be achieved inhouse.
Re:At 85$ a go (Score:4, Funny)
Re:At 85$ a go (Score:2)
That's probably because most often, when word "outsourcing" is used, people think it means off-shoring for cost savings: moving your operations to a third-grade third-world place, costing a fraction of original cost, and getting at most what you pay for. They do not think of it as simple task of calling the plu
Re:At 85$ a go (Score:2)
Re:At 85$ a go (Score:3, Insightful)
There are substantial differences between an outsourcing company and a local employee:
1)
The laws governing an outsourced company are the laws of their native country. Forgive me for saying so, but most of the "popular" outsourcing countries have weak fraud/theft protection for American companies.
-vs-
With a local employee, they steal from you, they're going to lose their job, go to jail, and suffer serious consequences.
2)
With an outsourcing company, they generally pay the
Re:At 85$ a go (Score:2, Informative)
I remember reading about a US company that tried to prosecute a worker in their India subsidiary for fraud and gave up. The legal firm they hired appeared to be taking advantage of the company's naivity about Indian law and culture, and the courts were so backlogged such that it could take decades to prosecute.
As bad as our court/legal system is, India's is much worse. Part of it is also that inter-country lawsuits take longer to prosecute in general.
The problem I have with outsourcing (Score:2)
Outsourcing is fine when it actually saves money and gets better service. I know many small companies that outsource their tech support. They can't afford to keep a fulltime tech guy since they have too few computers. So they have a local tech
Re:The problem I have with outsourcing (Score:2)
Why does nobody ever want to name these companies?
Secrets for Sale. (Score:4, Insightful)
Who do you trust to watch them?
Re:Secrets for Sale. (Score:5, Funny)
The companies are now multinational not national (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:The companies are now multinational not nationa (Score:2)
Re:The companies are now multinational not nationa (Score:2)
Nobody wants your data. (Score:2, Interesting)
"But but but, I have lots of top secret plans for our X14 prototype for the new product line..."
Nope, Not Interested. The data on your new product line is a trade secret, and even if your biggest competitor didn't already think thier own product is superior, being caught with the data coul
Re:Nobody wants your data. (Score:4, Interesting)
Not everyone is as logical as you are...not everyone sees or expects a downside.
And for a lot of people, having that edge can be worth significant bonuses in their pay packet, and is worth the minimal risk of getting busted.
Re:Nobody wants your data. (Score:3, Interesting)
So yeah, the original poster is dead wrong. Corporate espionage is very real, although usually it's done through much more mundane things - like buddying up to someone who does business with both you and Competitor X, and convincing him that violating his NDA and g
Re:Nobody wants your data. (Score:5, Informative)
You my friend need to do a reality check. People out there want your data. However meaningless items of data. *BAD*.
* Spammers want your email, as you point out
* Marketdroids want your consuming habits
* Health insurance folks want your latest medical checkup and your average cigarette consumption
* Car insurance companies want your tickets and warnings
* Pedophiles want your kids' school timetables
* The IRS want your overseas banking records
* Bubba from da 'hood wants to know when you take holidays
Please get real...
Re:Nobody wants your data. (Score:2)
Re:Nobody wants your data. (Score:2)
Re:Nobody wants your data. (Score:2)
Re:Nobody wants your data. (Score:2)
Re:Nobody wants your data. (Score:3, Funny)
But the thing is... you have to get caught by SEC. I always wondered about this one:
SEC: How did you know about the merger?
Me: An angel came to me in a dream and told me to buy MergingCo, so I did.
SEC: That sounds awfully convenient...
Me: Can you prove any wrongdoing?
SEC: Why, yes. You just confessed. You and the angel will go to jail for insider trading.
IANAL.
Re:Nobody wants your data. (Score:2)
boring stuff...
Air Canada claims that "espionage on a massive scale" took place at the home of WestJet vice president Mark Hill. It wants to search WestJet's records for evidence that WestJet used information from an Air Canada employee-only website to plan its flight schedule and expansion.
In court documents, Hill has admitted that he did access the Air Canada employee-only website using the password and PIN of a former Air Canada employee
Due Diligence (Score:2, Insightful)
Outsourcing to the US (Score:5, Interesting)
As long as politics are kept out of it... (Score:2)
But the second one starts preaching the increased unemployment here, or the poor conditions there, I walk away...
Re:As long as politics are kept out of it... (Score:2)
May be as someone like that, but certainly not by one. Unfortunately...
"proper due diligence" (Score:2)
Misusing offshoring (Score:3, Insightful)
I realize during recent programming projects that there are often little things that can be outsourced in order to help a developer deal with business logic more and technical issues less.
For example, a program crashes and you cannot figure out where it crashes. These kinds of tasks would be served well by somebody offshore. You only have to give them the program and ask them to find out why it crashes. They don't have to understand the business logic, only how to debug that language.
Another time we needed some test data. The developer could create a sample pattern and then offshore the data entry of similar entries.
Thus, a horizontal division of labor may be more effective than a verticle division.
[*] So will the alternative. I think the US does not offer anything economically special anymore, and we will become an also-ran economy. "Innovation" does not help much because much of the actual development of ideas can also be offshored these days. Thus, the source of innovation no longer generates as many local jobs as it used to. For every good idea there may be say 200 people bringing it to fruit. Now maybe only 50 of these remain local, for example.
Re:Misusing offshoring (Score:2)
Wasn't the same thing predicted during the Industrial Revolution? (vague recollections of high-school History) America at the time was moving from a primarily agriculture-based economy to a manufacturing-based economy (as were other parts of the world). Yes, there were some short-term upheavals, but the DOOM that was to befall the American economy never came to pass.
We (and the rest of the world) will weather this and emerge wit
Re:Misusing offshoring (Score:2)
But in this case it has worked for 6000 years. Given that, it seems that 6100 years is not a huge stretch.
Outsourcing Security (Score:3, Interesting)
Employees are Perceived as a Greater Risk (Score:4, Insightful)
I think many firms think outsourcing security is safer as they see their employees as their worst risk. I've watched managers knowingly do horrible things to employees...then they become paranoid that they employees with act in retribution.
To a large extent, employees are a worse threat since they will learn the company's weaknesses. The growing distrust between management and workers is scary.
Anyway, my experience is that managers who perceive themselves in a different class than workers don't like delegating secutity to members of the class they disparage.
Office 2020 (Score:2, Funny)
"Why are you getting pencils, Dave? You already took two last week."
Trusting Strangers... (Score:5, Insightful)
Keep in mind, outsourced security firms aren't domestically regulated like banks or other groups. If you can't "sue", "arrest" or otherwise influence the people watching you, then why give them the keys?
Outsourcing security seems like a good paradigm at first, but trust is earned. Here, we have serious certifications (clearances, CISSP, credit ratings, background checks, bonding, etc.) and there's a definite degree of employer influence over their employees.
Maybe its just me, but whenever someone I don't know says, "Trust me! C'mon, take a chance, live a little, all the cool CEOs are doing it" I'd conclude right away that these guys are going to ruin me. Mostly because, up until now, "TRUST ME" hasn't been too much of a necessity in outsourcing.
Anyway, outsourcing security could be one of the next "Great" phishing scams, after all -- why go for the salad when someone can go for the five course meal.
Outsourcing is not equal to off-shoring (Score:3, Interesting)
Where the fuck was all this anti-offshoring movement when nike / reebok was selling you cheaper shoes (made in india/china), most of your apparel is made by the asian-tigers and a third world country like bangladesh. Now that you are losing your jobs (in the IT industry) you think it's not fair??? where were you when the others were losing their jobs???
First elect a president who is more concerned for america rather than unsuccessfully being world-police. Maybe things will change for you in due time.
and once again (n+1).. Outsourcing is not equal to off-shoring
The Problem With Outsourcing: Results (Score:3, Insightful)
Offshore? WTF? (Score:2)
Data regulations in Europe would probably entirely prohibit any European companies from even contracting with an overseas firm, certainly (sensitive data often cannot cross national borders, by law). I don't know of any specific US regulations, but I'd imagine the companies themselves are highly unlikely to go for this.
My company used to do that (Score:2)
I argued for a long time that we needed a firewall. Bozo argued that they were useless. A couple of years later, Bozo seems to have decided that firewalls were usefull and so decided that we needed a firewall.
Bozo then oursourced our firewall management to one of the better known computer security firms. At the time, I figured that was far better than letting Bozo handl
Re:My company used to do that (Score:2)
Outsourcing only works in certain situations (Score:2, Interesting)
Out sourcing has it's place, but it should only be used in certain situations.
outsourcing in America is dangerous enough (Score:4, Interesting)
I was told to show up on Friday afternoon and that I'd be working with a group pretty much all weekend. No one took a look at my ID, or had me sign anything. They believed me that I was eligible to work in the US even though most of my resume was working outside of the states. Asking around I found that this was the case with most of the forty odd nerds they had rounded up for the job.
We were all working for a subcontractor of a subcontractor of a major IT firm from Texas. We were all given pretty much free reign of the executive offices and all shared the same username and password. There was basically no supervision what so ever.
It would have been so easy to install a good deal of malicious software... heck, it wouldn't have been that hard to swap out the master image to take over pretty much every machine on the network.
I don't even want to think of what goes on in third world countries. That weekend really made me second guess what goes on in the US. If the bank had it's own IT staff, seven people who could work together could have done the same job that it took about sixty including supervisors and honchos and I am sure the cost of their salaries for a year was less than was wasted on that crew. The upside was they did buy us good pizza!!!
Re:outsourcing in America is dangerous enough (Score:2, Informative)
You'd be interviewed and checked out at the very least. Someone would take a copy of your (official) ID card.
not so bad - medical outsourcing (Score:2, Insightful)
$85?! (Score:2)
Ever since my job was outsourced, I can't afford books. Or food, or beer...
Work Changing in the US Operations (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm actually making more money since I get OT while at a client's facility but I'm liking my work less. It doesn't look like things will be changing any time soon.... the US corporate world at its best!
What security??? (Score:2)
"IT is not a core competency" (Score:2)
"When the crew you outsourced your IT to screws up, how long will your company stay in business? If the answer is 'Not long', then you'd better MAKE IT A CORE COMPETENCY!"
The problem is that far too many people in executive management have no common sense whatsoever, and writing new laws won't change that. I don't know what will, other than easing up on the red tape that holds back
Outsourcing SWIFT jeys (Score:2)
Normally SWIFT keys are looked after by procedures and also legislation. Whether a company in a developing country can do either is arguable, even if the company is a wholely owned subsidiary.
Major US student loan company outsources (Score:2)
Re:Slashdot (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Slashdot (Score:4, Insightful)
Could it be that many Slashdotters have also seen big problems with quality, related to off-shoring? And although much of it can be attributed to lack of normal decent oversight, resulting from greedy optimism, there are also some inherent problems... at least with the common system of half-ass transitioning of "boring" tasks to remote countries like India (remote as in having significant timezone different to US).
Personally I'm not all that afraid of losing my job (either the current one, or in general) -- I'm good enough to earn my living, with my talent, skills and experience, even with lower-paid competition. But I despise most of current off-shoring efforts, since as an engineer, it's obvious to me why they have problems. And although I could work on improving it (there are many things that could be done to improve things), there's little benefit. I can get things done using local workers, to be profitable, it's less hassle (out of sight, out of mind...); and on top of that, I can see competitors wasting good money on bad ideas. What's not to like?
Re:Slashdot (Score:4, Interesting)
That's why I call him 'Il Douche'
Bush is a lot like Mussolini in that Mussolini wanted fascism to be the combination of state and corporation. Bush's espoused ideology is communitarianism which when analyzed using semiotics is shown to be highly similar to fascism. Not totalitarianism, fascism.
Re:Slashdot (Score:2)
On the other hand, it's really not good/fair to compare Bush (or any other current world leader) in general with Hitler -- there may be s
Re:Slashdot (Score:2)
- Half of the middle east would already be in concentration camps.
- Oil prices would be $0.25 a gallon.
- Billions more americans would be unemployed. And they would be happy to see the draft come back, just so they can "do something with their lives".
- Dallas cowboys will have 5 stadiums to choose from.
- Bush family would have established drug companies in Canada, Mexico and beyond to profit from.
Re:Slashdot (Score:2)
Slashdot is overwhelmingly workers versus executives and business owners so it is not surprising that they have a protectionistic and socialist outlook on employment.
And of course executives like this guy [freep.com] who burned all the shareholders and put thousands of employees in the unemployment line, gets *replaced* and slinks away (to the boardroom) with $100 million. Yes, we should realize how hard they work for for the good of the *cough* country.
Re:Bring the boys...er...Jobs...back home! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Bring the boys...er...Jobs...back home! (Score:2)
Re:Bring the boys...er...Jobs...back home! (Score:3, Funny)
it sure wouldn't hurt to have an influx of jobs.
Geez. After Apple took him back I've had enough influx of Jobs. Does he really need more ego fluffing?
Re:FUD (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:FUD (Score:3, Insightful)
I may be a gun security expert, who can design a bulletproof Firewall\IDS\Mandatory ACL schema\Managed virus control architecture for you, but AS A PERMANENT EMPLOYEE I am the last person you want deploying it and administering it.
Why?
Cos if I designed it and hold the keys to it, you know I am gonna eventually open up port 22 so I can futz about with my home machines. And then I mig
Re:FUD (Score:3, Interesting)
Outsourcing is a part of a natural, healthy global capitalist economy.
The problem is that we do not have a natural, healthy global capitalist economy. We have a divided economy with a few rich and many poor countries with underdeveloped economies.
Aside fr
Re:FUD (Score:2)
The longer answer is more of a psychoeconomical effect: an economy can be thought of as an evolving organism. If its process is artificially sped up
Re:FUD (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:FUD (Score:2)
No. Highly simplified*, if all IT was withdrawn from the US and India, the results would be different in that the US would fall back on its other high-level economic sectors such as banking, healthcare etc. India, on the other hand, would drop directly to the pre-dotcom underdeveloped economy:
Re:FUD (Score:2)
Re:And you got modded troll again. (Score:2)