In Case File: Audit Server Disappeared, I noted that a friend of mine learned that IT had, on its own prerogative, wiped a server belonging to Internal Audit because “it never appeared to be used.”
Some of you already commented on some of the issues involved in this incident and the normal IT activities that should have prevented this incident (or at least alerted IT that something was wrong). Let’s review those comments and I’ll add some other details and comments.