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Sounds like Indiana gots caught with its fly down and all of our junk swinging in the breeze, so UpGuard offered to repair the faulty zipper. Of course Indiana’s CIO is lashing out – they should be boxing up their desk any minute!
Well, it’s a perfectly legitimate business approach to look for problems and then offer to fix them. There are ways to do that properly and ways to be shady. I don’t know the company or what they did specifically. However, if the state left the data exposed, the only party at fault is the state. If the state doesn’t like that they were informed by an external party, they don’t have to choose to do business with that vendor, but the only thing they need is a mirror if they want to place blame.
Sayeth @TS: Well, it’s a perfectly legitimate business approach to look for problems and then offer to fix them.
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So if I find your house is unlocked, I can legally enter it, take things out of it, then notify you of my actions and offer to fix it for you? (I don’t need any chest-thumping about what’s going to happen to me if I try it…I’m just wanting to know if what I’m suggesting is a low-tech equivalence.)
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The ISDH CIO is a complete joke. I would not be surprised that he totally boffed things by thinking he is smarter than everyone else. The state CIO should really look into how poorly that division has been run over the years. Many of the local IT agencies won’t assist ISDH because this guy mistreats contractors, employees, and service providers. He hires the cheapest people he can find, expects PHD level work, brow beats everyone who doesn’t think he’s the best thing since cold water, and we get a penetration test that says he’s failed to cover the state’s assets.
There has to be a “last ranked” for every category — I would not be surprised to learn this guy is exactly that for the entire state of Indiana (if not the midwest).
Chris H., I don’t know who you’re talking about, but it’s certainly not the current ISDH CIO. The current CIO is a total professional with leadership and technical skills worth three or four times the state pays him. He remains at ISDH as a matter of integrity, to finish projects that will take another year or two to complete, because he’s promised to see them through. He commands the respect ob both his reports and his peers in the agency. A “joke”? “Mistreats”? “Brow beats”? Never, not this guy. You’re either deliberately misinformed or a sour-grapes former employee.
Matthew — Far from sour grapes form employee. The state CIO is a great guy (I know Tracy well and would highly agree that he’s of integrity and professionalism).
The ISDH CIO is a joke — promoted into the path of failure. He’s the only person in my professional career whom I’ve literally walked out of an interview on. To say he’s professional and respectful is far from what I’ve experienced, had friends and former co-workers report, and heard from my professional network. Several of the local agencies refuse to send experienced candidates to ISDH because they don’t want to poison the well with a potentially unprofessional interview for a rate that is so far below other agencies. I’ve heard so many similar stories about the ISDH CIO that my experience has been confirmed as a repeat pattern.
95% of the state IT people are absolutely fantastic to deal with — truly class people doing the right thing for the right reason in spite of the lack of funding the state house gives them. I have no issue with them –just this one individual who has demonstrated that he is not to be trusted to work to the citizen’s benefit.
Working at 30% of the pay his skills would command in the private sector because of “Integrity” LOL. Government is where incompetent people go to hide.
Chris, you’re certainly entitled to your opinion, even one admittedly based on hearsay and a claimed aborted interview for an undefined job on an undefined date. My opinion, by comparison, is based on working personally, side by side with the guy for many years, including countless observations of his program-saving tech skills and professional treatment of subordinates. The hearsay from your “professional network” friends is comically wrong, and it’s ridiculous to assert that “local agencies” (which ones?) are actually “refusing” to send candidates to ISDH (again, which ones?) because they view the CIO as “poison.” Ridiculous. Anyway, I’m done here. Those who care about this thinly tangential tit-for-tat can judge for themselves who is correct, perhaps while contemplating how someone you call a “failure” firmly remains CIO at ISDH — with the approval and high regard of unquestioned professionals like Kris Box, Lindsay Weaver, and (yes) even Tracy Barnes.