When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved
&gt; The CIO admitted that he had been approached and explained that he had informed the VP that IT already had a project with SAP to deliver what the VP needed. “Yes, but that won’t be ready for me to use for three years, and I need something today,” retorted the VP. The CIO was silent. Then the CEO asked the VP, “I’ve known you for ten years. You don’t seem like someone who would do something to harm the company. Why did you do this?” The VP hit right back: “Since I started this digital customer acquisition program, we’ve increased revenue $1M per month. Before we were losing revenue. If you want, I can shut it down right now. What do you want me to do?”<p>Maybe not for this particular project, but another interpretation of that is &quot;who cares about security if we&#x27;re making money&quot; which is a very dangerous argument as well.