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Outsourcing.
From: Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:55:47 +1000 (EST)
There appears to be some sort of "outsourcing fad" progressing its way through organisations, involving business units which are not deemed to be "core" given to third parties to supply - one of these, of course is IT (desktop, network, etc). Whilst many of us may not be in a position to do anything about it (or are a part of an organisation which is on the receiving end), the mode of operation that these outsourcing companies need to operate under for profit making to be a reality would seem to be at odds with that required for good network integrity. That is, they need to economise in some way, such as managing several customers from one set of "consoles". This introduces an obvious risk: the agent can become an interconnecting "ISP" between their clients, to each of whom they require network connectivity for "proper network management". Amongst the problems with this is the resistance of the company providing the outsourcing to spend any more money than they have to on silly things like firewalls between them and their clients. ("groan" I hear you say) Have others here had dealings with outsourcing companies and managed to get them to act responsibly with regard to protecting the integrity of their clients' networks or have any stories about such a setup being exploited ? (names need not be mentioned). Cheers, Darren
Current thread:
- Outsourcing. Darren Reed (Apr 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Outsourcing. Matthew_S_Cramer (Apr 20)
- Re: Outsourcing. Darren Reed (Apr 21)
- Re: Outsourcing. David Morrison (Apr 28)
- RE: Outsourcing. James Vaughn (Apr 20)
- Re: Outsourcing. Andrew_Bernoth (Apr 28)
- Re: Outsourcing. David Lang (Apr 29)