IT management has given me greater awareness of what it takes to keep a company working efficiently and safely. The biggest take away for my career would be practicing better safeguard of company data and the added knowledge of SAP.
The threats to cyber-security are ever present and always evolving, and not usually susptected. In my line of business, maintaining a tight hold of personal and company data is vitally important and if compromised, could cost millions of dollars. In 2011, a company encrypted server was hacked into and the result was that several plants on the east coast shutdown. After the investigation was complete, they found that someone didn’t properly log out of their intranet account, leaving their information vulnerable. Soon, someone else was able to bypass the encryption and use this employee’s information to create havoc and disrupt company operations. the result of this heinous crime costed the company several hundred million dollars, all because an employee forgot to log out when he left for home that day. All of this may have been prevented if the employee had properly logged out of his account before going home for the day.
In the SAP section, I gained greater familiarity with the software and learned some sweet shortcuts to navigating this complex system. In my line of work, SAP is a necessity and many positions require knowledge of it. In the assignment, I was able to locate purchase orders and other valuable information. I will be using this new helpful knowledge and will give me an edge in climbing my career pursuits.
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