The Lucifer effect
Dec 25th, 2010 by Jesper Kråkhede
Most of you are aware of how to solve security problems. One that is harder to solve is how to handle a security department that don’t works for the company’s good. It is very easy to blame that specific guy but what if it is the system that is wrong?
I recently read ‘The Lucifer effect, How good people turn evil’. A very disturbing and upsetting book I must say. The theme of the book is a lot more disturbing than a security guy saying no to everything but looking at the processes impost of the times his guy hides behind processes and referes to the other staff as ‘Users'” ‘Endloosers’ or similar. The dehumanization paves the road for intrusive security functions that won’t support the business.
So mind your wordings and read the book. You will find out disturbing things of yourselves but in the end you may have gotten some understanding.