Responsibilities of Management, Information Technology Personnel and the Consumer.

As technology continues to be an integral part of our lives it is also becoming commonplace in our business community. Companies are moving toward becoming 'paperless' and our personal and private information lies somewhere between the office walls and the Cat5 cabling in a form that many average people do not understand: servers databases directories files clusters and sectors. They do not need to understand this mysterious environment - they rely on the IT folks to do what they do. The reality is that many IT personnel are great at building servers connecting workstations to the network installing software and fixing the daily printer problems. Security breaches have become a frequent problem nationwide. Our government saw the problems of the organizational inconsistency between management and information technology and started to act.