In January next year Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 reach end of support. That is six months from now. If you are in management and think this is something for the IT department, keep reading.<\/p>\n
An old server is rarely a technical problem. It is a business decision that nobody made. Someone decided that the application was good enough, that the migration could wait until next budget year and that the risk was acceptable. Only, nobody ever wrote down that risk and nobody signed it.<\/p>\n
When the next WannaCry comes, and it will, those are the servers that go first. And when the business stops it doesn\u00b4t matter that the IT department warned you in a mail three years ago.<\/p>\n
So what should management do? First, ask for a list of every system that will be out of support in 2020 and who owns the business process behind it. Second, decide for each one: migrate, isolate or accept. If you accept, sign it, with a name and a date. Third, put the money in the budget now and not in a crisis after the incident when everything costs three times as much.<\/p>\n
Legacy isn\u00b4t free. You are just paying later, with interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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