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UPCOMING EVENTS
OCTOBER 21
Communication Today: New Generations, New Rules
OCTOBER 23
Developing Effective Records Management Strategies

The city of San Francisco's IT department is certainly not the exception when it comes to allowing just one person to have unfettered rights to make password and configuration changes to networks and enterprise systems. In fact, it's a situation fairly common in many organizations -- especially small to medium-size ones, IT managers and others cautioned in the wake of the recent Terry Childs incident.