You make a tender, evaluate their different bids and then select a supplier based on a set of criteria. The supplier then provide a turn-key solution and the only thing you have to do it accept the final delivery. How hard can it be?
Security is important but the measures we take to achieve it are not always effective. These ineffective or even counterproductive security measures are known as "security theater".
Greger Wikstrand and Joakim Lindbom (both Enterprise Architects from Capgemini) discuss Extreme Contracts and the behavior agreements creates.In order to make faster changes, you need to work in other ways and make other deals. The discussion continues with technical debt and how old behavior created this situation.
Crime is offered as a service, the criminals are working on a global level and they even have better CRM-systems than the business have. If you find out that you had in intrusion, it’s often to late to do something about it.
Your company have grown over the years and your IT-legacy is getting more and more outdated. The demand from business to change increases and the improvements on the IT-side are getting slower and slower.