Aligning IT And Security To Drive Long-Term Organizational Success, With Brian Knudtson
Gestaly IT, Friday, December 8,2023
The dynamic, multigenerational workforce of IT faces a gigantic obstacle. With vast differences in perspectives, belief systems and methods, these professionals struggle to connect with their peers from other teams. Especially, there is a worrying rift between security and IT, where all of IT is on one side, and the department of cybersecurity, on the other.
'A big part of it comes from the fact that IT tends to open up everything to let it flow as it wants to, and not put any controls over it which can lead to chaos,' says Brian Knudtson, a long-time IT professional, author and speaker, at the Ignite Talk recorded at the recent Edge Field Day event in California.
The approach adopted by the security team is in sharp contrast to this. 'Security is there to truly control things and make sure that they are moving the way they should be moving which does require saying no sometimes.'
As a result, the rest of IT often views security as the 'Department of No'.