[PhantomGremlin]

It's good that you lead with risk as #1. You know this, but many don't follow so closely. So here's a Wiki entry of a recent spectacular failure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group

The first sentence:

   The Knight Capital Group was an American
   global financial services firm

The key word is: was

[toomuchtodo]

As an infrastructure engineer doing DevOps currently, I use Knight Capital Group frequently as an example as why its important to always be in control of your application's environment.