School laptop spying case? Blame it on IT.

[thewayne]

So apparently they're now blaming the IT department for not having proper procedures and controls in place. And who directs the IT director? Management, in this case the school board. If you don't tell IT to do something, it frequently doesn't get done and clearly the big picture was not seen by most people in this case.

Big mess, it's going to cost the district some big bucks.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/report-blames-it-for-bad-procedures-in-school-spying-case.ars

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/06/1925245/Lower-Merion-Schools-Report-Says-IT-Dept-Did-It-But-Didnt-Inhale

Comments

[silveradept]

Yeah. I would trust a firm that would rip them a new one for everything they did and lay it out in unflinching terms than one that attempted to provide them with a fig leaf of cover that they could hide behind and deny responsibility for.