https://omeka.lawrencecatania.com/items/show/2309
title: After cybersecurity lab wouldn’t use AV software, US accuses Georgia Tech of fraud --According to these former employees, senior leadership at Georgia Tech gave in to the demands of these researchers to avoid compliance with cybersecurity regulations because “of the money [the researchers] bring in” from government contracts. As one former employee described it, Georgia Tech had a cybersecurity compliance “culture of somebody up the line is going to overturn me... [so] I might as well go ahead and ignore the policy.” Another former employee described Georgia Tech’s “attitude” to its “obligations to meet cybersecurity requirements” as “oh, I don’t want to bother with that.”
description: According to these former employees, senior leadership at Georgia Tech gave in to the demands of these researchers to avoid compliance with cybersecurity regulations because “of the money [the researchers] bring in” from government contracts. As one former employee described it, Georgia Tech had a cybersecurity compliance “culture of somebody up the line is going to overturn me... [so] I might as well go ahead and ignore the policy.” Another former employee described Georgia Tech’s “attitude” to its “obligations to meet cybersecurity requirements” as “oh, I don’t want to bother with that.”
source: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/oh-your-cybersecurity-researchers-wont-use-antivirus-tools-heres-a-federal-lawsuit/