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IT needs more brains, so why is it so bad at getting them? (www.theregister.com)
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IT needs more brains, so why is it so bad at getting them?::Open-book exams aren’t nearly open enough

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you're not familiar with what they do, IT also be seen as a money sink, since there's no obvious sign of them preventing things from going wrong. So they might seem like they're just a department sitting there wasting money, or they're a department you wasted money on when the company is inevitably hacked, for not stopping it in the first place.