ENISA is doing what every EU-funded organisation does: make a business case for centralisation within EU organisations – a budget and power grab, this is pure spin on their part (ENISA criticises local EU cyber security teams).

ENISA’s criticism of national CERT teams amounts to ticking them off for acting within the law. We’d be more secure, they argue by implication, if we dismantled the Data Protection Act.
Possibly true. But frankly, I don’t want an intrusion of the EU into the UK privacy law which safeguards the citizen against the state – we’ve seen what happens already with legislation like the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and we don’t need any more.

ENISA would do better to make these arguments behind closed doors, rather than pay PR agencies to help them lobby for EU regulatory and compliance extension and intrusion.

Lord Gaga

So the Department for Work and Pensions  (DWP) is moving to an open source model, eh (DWP to trial 1,000 open-source desktops)? I guess they’re not seeing the ROI on their current infrastructure. Although it does become hard to find an R when there’s no I involved. Seriously, I mean IE6? Is that in conjunction with Office 97 or Office XP? No wonder we’ve got security issues if DWP is standardised on that model.

Wake up and don’t bother wasting your time and our data security for a year because let’s face it, you won’t actually go open source. Stop playing around and invest a little in your infrastructure. Windows 7 is more secure than XP, and with IE10 out for testing, the fact that the DWP still uses IE6 is a disgrace.

James Turner

In the Darwinian employment ecosystem, anyone with principles will choose the best option for themselves: either slave away in a job they hate, or choose somewhere that fits with their principles (Next generation of employees doesn’t respect IT rules).

The result? Some firms will prosper by “breaking all the rules” and creating new models that make a profit securely AND give their employees a satisfying experience. The rest will either die, or become profit-centric grindhouses.

Anyone intelligent enough and capable enough will always choose the line of least resistance. Deriding people for trying to be efficient is missing the point: people demand job satisfaction or it’s not worthwhile.

Darren

So the poor darlings expect this, that and the other (Next generation of employees doesn’t respect IT rules)? 

Well, tell you what, get them to go to their boss and request that he see his boss to approve it at board level. Then it will be properly costed, fit in around the legal requirements the company has and everyone will be happy.

Yeah, right. More likely the board says the company is in the worst economic downturn for several decades and needs its cash to survive, and tells young Johnny to sling his hook and see what several months of the dole does for his social needs. The firm then gets someone else from the millions who would be extremely grateful for a job?

These people need to get real. It isn’t IT stopping you do this, it’s the business. Hassle the business about it to change.  If the leaders say do it, it will happen. The reality is, though, that there are strong reasons for locking things down, preventing data loss and corruption and protecting a company’s reputation.

Techguy

It seems possible that Sony’s Tablet S was picked for the Pope because it’s specifically set up to act as a remote control (The Sony of God)?

Though why one needs any sort of tablet to turn on Christmas lights when a simple switch would do the job is beyond me.

Jane