Case Study
TAMING THE SPREADSHEET MENACE
TAMING THE SPREADSHEET MENACE Manage Risks of Spreadsheets and Other End-User Controlled Files "Microsoft’s Excel Might Be the Most Dangerous Software on the Planet. Yes, more dangerous than rogue code running a nuclear power plant, than the Stuxnet that was deliberately sent off to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program, worse, even, than whatever rent in the fabric of space time led to the invention of Lolcats. Really, that serious... it’s all become so complex and it’s handled in such a slapdash manner that no one is really on top of it anymore... But there’s another deeper level of risk here. That very throwing of trillions a day around the markets is dependent upon the existence of Excel itself." —Tim Worstall - Economics