"It is not often that my management team and I have disagreements, but it does happen. In my most recent role, there was a situation involving my recommendation to upgrade the security of our network. Management felt that it was too expensive, and the predicted results could not be cost-justified. I knew I had to convince them to do the upgrade, or our network would be at risk. I collected information about similar threats to other networks and the costs of resolving issues caused by attacks on the network. It became obvious that it would be easier to implement my suggestions than to remediate the situation after an attack occurred. Management agreed with my suggestion, and we implemented the upgrade in less time and at a lower cost than I had originally predicted. To my knowledge, the network has never suffered an attack due to this solution."
