Computer Security - Responsibility?

For many IT managers and system administrators, their first experience of computer security is being told "you're responsible for it!". Regrettably, however, this is often a prime case of "responsibility without authority".

Users, almost invariably, seem to believe that security is someone else's job. This is one of the IT security manager's worst headaches. If only we could get rid of the users...

The problem is that you're responsible for IT security, but there's nothing you can do to improve it because users won't accept that they play a crucial part in the process.

Responsibility for computer security, or to use the slightly wider term, information security, is very much a two-edged sword. To be placed in charge of it might be an opportunity to do some good - to improve your organisation, to make the world a better place - but without the authority to act and to compell others to act, it is very much a dangerous thing.

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