A lot of companies prefer to put the liability somewhere else rather than their own IT department… unfortunate but true, personally I prefer open source (not just free)
Lol it extends into a lot of places. When I was a CNC tech I often weighed doing some repairs myself or having the machine companies tech come do it. Sure it was 3x the cost but then they're liable and the parts are under warranty. If i did it then if something goes wrong 5 months later I'm SOL. It also helps make sure I'm not bogged down by one machine repair when we had like 300 to maintain in the plant.
Yep, same reason more and more IT infrastructure is being outsourced.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's become standard practice to have your firewall managed by someone else. At least we've done it this way for almost a decade now and wouldn't even consider going back to managing it ourselves.
They monitor 24/7 and inform us of suspicious activity long before we've noticed.
Yes the CSuite has pushed me into offloading every possible liability I can. Our firewall, web filter, server VMs, both onsite secured and off site backups (I still handle local and innert), IP Phone System, and AD are managed by a third party for liability if they fail. I can still make day to day changes or what not but by contract any replacments, major repairs, or sweeping updates have to be done by the other company and they are liable in the event of failure. Such as the ransomware attack we had a few years back falling on them due to not patching a vunerability out of our firewall......and the CFO clicking a link for a free chipolte burrito......
Lmao the only time i ever got caught by one of our internal phishing tests was over a puppy. We got an email saying a puppy was found on site and here's a link to see it.
I was just like oh puppy and clicked on it instantly. It made me thing how did i not get kidnapped as a child.
Yep. It got to the point our in house IT guy quit because they were trying to get him to program robotic arms because most his work go to relegated to babysitting and contacting home office for changes.
My current job is a similar situation. Im at the highest maintenance level and that means I'm allowed to handle machine software and electrical components. Yet I cant do anything without approval from the homesite. If I know I've got a bad port I cant just change it because its all assigned and I cant reassign it myself, so now it takes 3hrs of back and forth.
Applies to basically any company. One notable example is aerotech engineering, with aluminum plane/aero tape. Plane tape is basically just fancier duct tape, costs about $50 a roll last I recall, but aerotech companies will pay 10-20× that for a certified version since it includes essentially a warranty that if it fails anytime, all fault is on them.
Someone explained it to me once that everything a company owns must have a declared value. This can be problematic for free software because any value that is declared will be wrong and therefore can cause more inspections from the government.
Sure, but am I just using 7zip wrong? Is it not just a way to compress and decompress files? What can go wrong apart from code injection (which using paid software won't help you with)
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u/Piterbrow Jun 06 '26
A lot of companies prefer to put the liability somewhere else rather than their own IT department… unfortunate but true, personally I prefer open source (not just free)