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SF Not an Exception In Giving IT Too Much Control

Posted by timothy on from the double-edged-sword dept.

CWmike writes "The city of San Francisco's IT department is certainly not the exception when it comes to allowing just one person to have unfettered rights to make password and configuration changes to networks and enterprise systems. In fact, it's a situation fairly common in many organizations — especially small to medium-size ones, IT managers and others cautioned in the wake of the recent Terry Childs incident."

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  1. HA! by Splab · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As if it's ITs fault. Most companies I've worked at I have pointed this very situation out and usually get overruled based on the cost of doing it "right".

    (It isn't enough to have several people with the password, you need to know how to recover if you lose total communication with the guy responsible - ig. died.)

    Also it isn't just IT. Last months pay got delayed at my company, which really shouldn't happen since KPMG is responsible for taking care of payments for our company. The reason? The lady responsible for authorizing the transfer was the only one with the passwords to do so, and she was in labor.