Let them eat cake. For better security.
Last week I attended a data management conference organized by DAMA NL. Good data quality, metadata, and data ownership are important. But it’s also hard to convince organizations and people to spend time and money on them.
And you know how history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes? I hear echoes of the time I tried to convince organisations to improve security. To change that default Oracle password from “Welcome123!” to something less easily guessed, to patch that database software, and to apply the principle of least privilege.
I was talking yesterday to a colleague and team mate from years ago about that one time I had surprising success getting a manager to improve security. I thought I had written a blogpost about it on my old Oracle blog, but I couldn’t find it anymore. And it’s worth it telling the story anew, as best as I can remember it.
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