Video What Can Be Done About Rogue IT? 2
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Securing a customers information is critical, and Kelly McGowan, the Senior Director of Information Technologies at American Securities, tells us about how they are helping clients start those conversations.
Rogue IT happens when company IT fails (Score:2)
In every company I've ever seen, IT is underfunded and under resourced. Networks fail. Security becomes heavy handed and unreasonable (i.e. My job's not done until you can't do yours). IT is forced to centralize and standardize everything in a world where a cookie cutter approach is doomed to failure from the beginning.
What happens? Employees, who are bonused on getting actual work done, take matters into their own hands, figure out different ways of accessing company networks when the official VPN fails, f
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Not only that, but get rid of all the security theater nonsense, the general paranoia and fear of the unknown, and make the central IT accountable if they are unable to deliver a solution to satisfy a business need within the expected time frame.
Companies that don't hold IT accountable for failing to serve their customers (i.e., the people who get actual work done and make sales for the company) have no right to complain about shadow IT cropping up here and there. If central IT won't do it, and shadow IT is