The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million for a 2019 incident wherein the company stored millions of Facebook and Instagram passwords in plain text.
I work in the private sector and our most essential systems run on Windows Server 2012. Because the installed applications can’t be migrated to anything else. After a reboot, there’s 21 scripts that need to be run in a specific order (with admin rights) to get the app running again. The frontend is an http webpage that’s open to the world.
The supplier of the software is a huge global corporation, market leader in their field.
Have you ever worked for government IT? Most of it is ages behind private sector.
I work in the private sector and our most essential systems run on Windows Server 2012. Because the installed applications can’t be migrated to anything else. After a reboot, there’s 21 scripts that need to be run in a specific order (with admin rights) to get the app running again. The frontend is an http webpage that’s open to the world.
The supplier of the software is a huge global corporation, market leader in their field.