http://gizmodo.com/heres-why-your-bank-account-is-less-secure-than-your-gm-1683777281
Here’s Why Your Bank Account Is Less Secure Than Your Gmail
Mario Aguilar
Yesterday 4:33pm
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In other words, the banks aren’t doing more because they don’t have to. And so as long as they maintain zero-loss guarantees against fraud, and the amount lost to fraud remains relatively small compared to their deep pockets, the banks won’t do anything more to protect you.
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So while the end-user MAY not care — although the Banks could renege on their fraud guarantee — probably with help from the CoC, SEC, FED, FDIC, and DoJ — the IT professionals should care.
Remember ENRON?
After that, it was hard for finance folks to get a job with that on their resume.
I’d imagine it’s the same for an IT executive — or an infused person — from Target now.
If you’re unable to meet your duties of care and loyalty to act in the best interests of the organization for WHATEVER reason, then you have a duty to resign.
When I was on Wall Street, I was always told that I couldn’t use “lack of funding to excuse failure” because I should have been able to convince higher ups about the need.
So too, professionals have a similar duty.
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