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This is how it always goes down. - F*ck your customers over by gross negligence and sheer greed (or stupidity, or both) - Get caught with your pants down - Dump your stocks and cash out - Apologize when customers and media express outrage - Go to Congressional hearing and repeat the magic words "I do not recall" for every question - Find 1 low-level scapegoat employee - Fire that employee and declare that the company…
There's a mantra at my company that you can't assign blame for a problem to a particular person. If one person is capable of breaking your system, you have a bad system. The focus isn't on finding the one person or the one mistake that caused it, but fixing the process so one person or one mistake can't wreak that much havoc. I think it's a very good philosophy.
If the conclusion blames an individual then 100% of the time the real problem is with the system that gave them that much power.
Not having or addressing any of the women on your IT staff sounds like a systemic issue as well.
There's a mantra at my company that you can't assign blame for a problem to a particular person. If one person is capable of breaking your system, you have a bad system. The focus isn't on finding the one person or the one mistake that caused it, but fixing the process so one person or one mistake can't wreak that much havoc. I think it's a very good philosophy.
Bought a book mentioned in another thread about understanding system failures. If the conclusion blames an individual then 100% of the time the real problem is with the system that gave them that much power.
There's a mantra at my company that you can't assign blame for a problem to a particular person. If one person is capable of breaking your system, you have a bad system. The focus isn't on finding the one person or the one mistake that caused it, but fixing the process so one person or one mistake can't wreak that much havoc. I think it's a very good philosophy.
Edit: to add to his, what I mean to say is: it's great that (some) companies have this culture internally. It remains to be seen whether the mantra would survive a sufficiently large scandal. Maybe that's when the legal team comes in with the damage control plan as outlined in another comment by @justboxing.
There's a mantra at my company that you can't assign blame for a problem to a particular person. If one person is capable of breaking your system, you have a bad system. The focus isn't on finding the one person or the one mistake that caused it, but fixing the process so one person or one mistake can't wreak that much havoc. I think it's a very good philosophy.
There's a mantra at my company that you can't assign blame for a problem to a particular person. If one person is capable of breaking your system, you have a bad system. The focus isn't on finding the one person or the one mistake that caused it, but fixing the process so one person or one mistake can't wreak that much havoc. I think it's a very good philosophy.
I remember the huge AWS outage that happened and was due to one engineering fat fingering a command. Instead of firing him they put in policies in place so that can't happen again.
This is how it always goes down. - F*ck your customers over by gross negligence and sheer greed (or stupidity, or both) - Get caught with your pants down - Dump your stocks and cash out - Apologize when customers and media express outrage - Go to Congressional hearing and repeat the magic words "I do not recall" for every question - Find 1 low-level scapegoat employee - Fire that employee and declare that the company…
- collect $90 million and skip the jail part.
Having just a single point of human failure standing in the way of leaking 145M people's data is already negligent. Trying to foist responsibility onto this poor individual (presumably some lower-rung employee) is shameful and just goes to show how ripe their corporate culture was for something like this to happen.
Doubtless the various lawsuits will be coming back to this testimony for many years.
This is how it always goes down. - F*ck your customers over by gross negligence and sheer greed (or stupidity, or both) - Get caught with your pants down - Dump your stocks and cash out - Apologize when customers and media express outrage - Go to Congressional hearing and repeat the magic words "I do not recall" for every question - Find 1 low-level scapegoat employee - Fire that employee and declare that the company…