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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by maxxxxx on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @09:55AM (#20164628)
The funny thing is that they block Dropbox but then there are plenty of shady upload sites that aren’t blocked. We don’t use them because we think they aren’t secure but our IT guys would have no problem with that.
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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by natch on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:26AM (#20165567)
That highlights a problem woven through the industry which is that the IT department isn’t always the sharpest team in the building, even on security matters.
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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by TeMPOraL on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @06:43PM (#20170105)
It's worse than that. I haven't met an IT person yet that wasn't as smart as the developers they worked with, except in slightly different domain. But the incentive structures are aligned in a way that makes IT's real job to execute cover-your-ass directives which freeze work. Doing the right thing is literally the opposite of what IT is being paid for.
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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by ubermonkey on Thursday June 13, 2019 @09:03AM (#20174387)
>I haven't met an IT person yet that wasn't as smart as the developers they worked with

You are very, very fortunate.

The standard big-company IT person I see at client sites is not very bright or will-informed.

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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by maxxxxx on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:40AM (#20165767)
They are completely outsourced and offshored. Only a few competent people are left.
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