Recession: A chance to deploy open source security
The financial belt-tightening of a recession may prove to be a great opportunity to improve on your organization’s security.
As the first quarter of 2009 went by, it was becoming increasingly evident that an immediate bounce-back from the economic crash of 2008 isn’t likely.
Not only do we have to deal with the fallout of disastrous financial decisions made by both governmental and corporate policy makers leading up to 2008, but we’re also seeing a continuation of that kind of decision making from the U.S. Congress.
A “stimulus” bill that adds ten years of unprecedented levels of national debt is joined by new laws nominally targeted at “protecting” children whose particulars seem designed without any care toward actually protecting anyone, but are already doing a great job of consigning whole industries to failure.