At work today, I was speaking with a co-worker who was new to me and joked about trying to solve a data security issue by good-faith in employees alone. I suppose I opened up the opportunity by my likening justifying the ROI on the investment into data security to proving there were no WMD's in Iraq. It's very difficult to prove a negative. It is infinitely easier to justify data security after you have been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars; it's easier to prove when there's something tangible than when you don't.
What ensued was a "Yes, instead of looking for the WMDs, we could have just dropped 85Billion and a nuclear bomb and taken care of the whole mess. Problem solved."
How do you respond to that? And better yet, "what good could come of any of my responses other than to make him uncomfortable?" I swiftly changed the subject to the actual topic of our meeting.
Once again (if you know me, you know that strangers will say the darndest things to me...), I was left feeling shocked, but not awed. I'm glad it's out there though. I have a good sense of where he stands and more importantly, what topics to avoid in the future -- at least in the office.
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