When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved

Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by esoterica on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:27AM (#20165583)

There’s nothing wrong with a block Dropbox policy. The problem here is a failure to establish a standardized method of transferring files in and out of the company.

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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by dasil003 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:42AM (#20165801)

And what if two companies standardized methods are incompatible?

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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by anoncake on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:20PM (#20167654)

They could hire a third company to copy the data from one standardized method to the other.

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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by TeMPOraL on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @06:45PM (#20170121)

And now the threat model is at best "literally Dropbox"; at worst, "a Dropbox except built by a random startup or fly-by-night contractors".

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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by exabrial on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:45PM (#20167929)

You write a new standard to unify the existing two standards

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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by wernercd on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @07:53PM (#20170564)

Or you create some sort of middleware to talk between the two.

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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by hnick on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:36AM (#20172542)

USB sticks usually, in my experience.

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