The Bozo Factor
Bank Lawyer’s Blog:
Twenty plus years ago, I had been recruited by a large law firm as a lateral hire. At my first quarterly firm dinner, I was sitting next to an especially acerbic fellow lateral hire (and, therefore, one of my favorite co-toilers at the firm) when a senior partner waltzed in wearing a navy blue blazer, pink dress shirt, red-and-green plaid pants and a paisley tie. I watched him walk across the room, booming loudly and obnoxiously every step of the way. My mate, reading the "WTF?" look on my face, turned to me and deadpanned, "The Bozo Factor: every firm’s got it."
According to Ben Worthen of the Business Technology Blog, many businesses have it and it applies to IT professionals as well as to legal professionals. It’s not clown-like dress and behavior that Worthen’s discussing, however. it’s incompetence, the kind that causes security breaches.
Hackers enjoy a reputation…