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And this is from a huge organisation. There are many more medium-large organisations that still operate under the Chinese-walls model: perimeter defense, but once you are inside the VPN/intranet the security is a lot more relaxed (if any). That is the security culture and very hard to change.

The market forces those orgs to start offer services online. They run those (relaxed security) services inside their intranet, so they start poking holes in their firewall. The next decade is not going to be pretty in that regard.



I think you're correct, that these will become more common. A couple of years ago I was chatting with friends who were doing APIs, because of market/regulatory pressure EU's PSD2, exporting JSON of transactions using COBOL for use in online. Because that bank - almost an order of magnitude larger than First American in terms of employees - will do everything in order to not move off COBOL / it's legacy system.

Interesting skill set: COBOL, DB2, JS, Angular.




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