Unattended software systems—almost any business with some kind of IT operations has at least one, if not several. Maybe you have a program that runs every Tuesday at 1:30 am to extract data and upload it to a vendor’s remote FTP server. Or maybe you have a database stored procedure that runs every two hours to keep the database cache for the web server from building up too much data. Or maybe you have a tape backup program that runs every night at 4:00am. The concept of “unattended” ref ...