Re: "ADT failed to monitor consumers’ accounts"
"The creep cheated. The system is not at fault."
I beg to differ. I'll bet you a pony that ADT has procedures in place that prevent people in accounts payable from writing themselves a check for 6 figures. I doubt any employee or even an executive has sole authority to access an unusually large sum of money.
Tech installs and configures the system and a random supervisor logs in and checks the configuration remotely when it's complete. Any anomalies in standards are called out immediately. Any indication the tech is installing a backdoor is met with a dismissal.
It's not hard to create a system with checks and balances. Only the will to do it is lacking.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
