It is cheaper to build a shoddy system out of the pre-made parts that software companies sell. A shiny very capable system can be built quickly, and cheaply.
To build a robust system, segmented, properly backed up, maintained professionally... costs a lot more.
To have staff on your payroll who understand your systems, who can maintain your systems and recover your systems in a disaster means having expensive professionals on the payroll who look like they are doing nothing.
When your whole business goes into a paralysis because of the costs you saved, there will be some one to blame. Some clerk in a office that "clicked on a attachment" - it is their fault....
Yes, it is cheaper in the long run to build robust maintained systems. But in the long run we are all dead, and our bonuses will be paid before the catastrophe, and anyway it is "some body else's fault".
I think a lot of the "cost savings" and "efficiency" of sticking everything on computers and putting them online would evaporate if it all had to be secured properly, even for fairly generous values of "properly".
It is cheaper to build a shoddy system out of the pre-made parts that software companies sell. A shiny very capable system can be built quickly, and cheaply.
To build a robust system, segmented, properly backed up, maintained professionally... costs a lot more.
To have staff on your payroll who understand your systems, who can maintain your systems and recover your systems in a disaster means having expensive professionals on the payroll who look like they are doing nothing.
When your whole business goes into a paralysis because of the costs you saved, there will be some one to blame. Some clerk in a office that "clicked on a attachment" - it is their fault....
Yes, it is cheaper in the long run to build robust maintained systems. But in the long run we are all dead, and our bonuses will be paid before the catastrophe, and anyway it is "some body else's fault".