It’s a field of growth and needed revenue. Mature insights preferred. Thanks
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They dumped Paul Girardi leading his toxic fiefdom. Chris Smith was canned probably due to letting Girardi fester for years. The Cyber security unit refused to work with other departments putting up roadblocks, blatantly not collaborating, and then there is their actual low intellectual capacity with respect to networking, poor technical abilities.
No one internally or externally has had confidence in the cybersecurity division. Customers do not have high confidence in T security.
As others said, the company is putting focus on core competencies and contracting 3rd parties with the dedicated expertise.to handle things like cyber security which is not a core competency. I think it’s the right move.
Bcs yoi cannot grow in corporate like T.
There are limits. Due to a lot of managers on different levels, VPs, AVPs,etc. Nothing is flexible and not even tools are easy to manage. For example GPS. Or ServiceeNOW.
To many employees and managers just because their family or friend is L2 manager or higher.
maybe the company that bought it wanted uam - lol
AT&T does not pay enough to attract the kind of talent you need to be a player in the IT security business. We just farm it all out to the places in the world you are trying to secure your network from in the first place.
“ Let's focus on the core of Fiber and mobility.”
The only problem with this is that it take very a very low skill set and wage to manage both.
Wait does this mean we're not selling ActiveArmor anymore?
They should have let Ed Amoroso run the business 10 years ago....it would have been a leader...he got it.....
It is because the Stink will sell any piece of Toxic-T off for a shiny nickel!
What do you expect from the Stink, who is top at the CEO Wall of Shame!
Yes sell it. AT&T is not a cybersecuity company. Let's focus on the core of Fiber and mobility. Any certified cybersecuity professionals that get caught up in the sale will easily find another job.
why have the sold other parts of the company off? to stank and rand the employees are nothing but cattle and they could care less about them and they have no conscious and are basically psychopaths because they never admit they were wrong.
Look a the business financials….. this thing called debt is catching up with AT&T.
I'm in cyber. I wish I left before the deal was signed. The way we have been treated is absolutely horrible.
The new company will have to deal with largely unmotivated employees who were deceived over a year.
If for some reason the deal doesn't go thru then they face having to find some other "creative" way to prevent a mass number of employees from leaving.
Only a handful will benefit from this. The ones getting the "kickbacks". Just my opinion.
Incompetent leadership. AT&T thought they could just bring in leaders from mobility and network services who don’t even know what the CIA triad is and that they would be successful. The ones that do know a few things about cyber are completely brain dead when it comes to basic business intelligence and leadership. Combine all of that and the thing was doomed to fail. It’s been a painful 10 years watching it flail around in an agonizing slow death. The only thing that sustained it was the T brand and the general momentum in cyber globally.
I want to poke my eyes out ever time I hear the line of bull that what differentiates T cyber is the threat intel we get from running the world’s largest global network. Lies! All lies! LOL
Lack of execution within this area.
Never had a chance here. Poor execution, awful support and zero long term vision. Another embarrassing portfolio failure. What makes it so laughable is the fact that we were on the cutting edge 5 years ago and completely ignored it.
I'm speculating, but I think the company wants to focus on its core competency (transport & wireless) and doesn't know what to do with that service. Personally, I think it's a mistake. Instead of hiring competent management, they're just getting rid of it.
It's easier to sell the unit off for pennies on the doll hair than to find competent leadership.
Truth be told, it’s not growth, cause they can’t get it right. Service delivery is a pain. Sellers don’t know how to sell it and a lot of incorrect orders just bog down the system. There’s no accountability to really gain momentum in the space in the giant world of T.