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   Ruben Medrano, Sr.

   November 5, 2012

   One of my sons is an Information Technology – Information Systems Vice President for a very large banking leader in the Coastal Bend area. When I read situations that involve human error, I have to remind myself that it was not human error until it proved itself to be. Situations such as the one described in the article no doubt had been brought to light as potentially occurring but probably fell on deaf ears. Usually IT specialists think ahead of their time and often so can ill-guess situations before they occur. Redundancy and alert features mostly run unattended as they become a bore when running mostly false-positives, suspect but true processes, and when line after line of data are examined in real time can easily lead to daydream monitoring.
   Just last week his firm had an occurrence that was mentioned as a possible bad setup waiting to happen over a year ago. Because it did not happen sooner, it was forgotten about until last week it cost their bank several thousand dollars and an audit showed it had occurred more than once. And who forecasted the doom-and-gloom possibility? I cannot tel you that but I can say the people involved in “not” acting sooner had no real understanding what could happen and were warned.
   It is not cheap listening to your pros but it is cheaper once something happens.

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