A former IT director at McKinsey & Co filed a complaint yesterday claiming it wrongfully terminated him after he blew the whistle on alleged disaster recovery issues within the consultancy.
Kamran Niazi alleges in the lawsuit, filed in Massachusetts on May 22 and seen by The Register, that he was put on a performance improvement plan (PiP) after he worked on a presentation reflecting poorly on the issues the company would have with data restoration, claiming in the complaint the organization might have had trouble withstanding "a malware attack or natural disruption event."
In his version of events, detailed in the complaint, Niazi joined the firm in February 2021 with his "primary focus" being to drive the IT Disruption Resilience (DR) program, which had previously been managed by three different employees. He went on to do work with the team that was trying to obtain FedRAMP certification for its Wave product – a program management solution which Niazi claimed the company had been selling to corporate clients for almost a decade "to begin generating revenue with governmental agencies."
As readers selling software platforms into US government agencies will know, a company needs the FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) cert to comply with Uncle Sam's cloud services risk policies.
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