Ian Southam has been in IT for over 25 year, in these 25 years he has filled various roles ranging from programmer, director of datacenter development and currently as mission critical engineer at Schuberg Philis where his is responsible for a broad range of mission critical application infrastructures. He mainly enjoys doing the work rather then talk about the work, but in this case he likes to make an exception because these so called "best practices" are getting too much in the way of getting the work done in a secure manner.