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Comments: 1 +-   How to Defuse the Threat of Disgruntled IT-> on Monday September 22 2008, @09:54AM snydeq

Submitted by snydeq on Monday September 22 2008, @09:54AM
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snydeq writes "According to computer forensics expert witness Keith Jones, for every logic bomb on the network or Terry Childs case that makes it into the press, there are 98 other incidents of disgruntled IT pros damaging company assets that you never hear about. And though most IT workers are too professional to take out their grievances on the systems they've worked so hard to maintain, unless management takes note of the growing discontent in the IT workplace, it may fall victim to the unspoken 'ticking time bomb' lurking within its call for IT to do more with less, InfoWorld reports. Drastically understaffed, battered by interminable hours and impossible demands, many IT folks are being pushed to the brink by management that neither trusts nor supports them. And yet without IT there is no business. As such, organizations face a double challenge in the years ahead: How to ease tensions in the IT workplace, while gradually regaining control over the technology needed to run the business."
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