Getting TC publicity is near impossible unless you're announcing something big like funding or a major partnership deal, or you're already being backed by a big player / VC / Investor, etc...
Sensational Headline? Isn't that what most headlines on HN are anyway?
If you want to solve the problem you're discussing in this article, you seriously need to talk to some dejected netadmins.
Most corporate technology problems where a solution exists but isn't used aren't technology problems at all, they're office politics problems (for the sake of argument I also consider business requirements / SOPs to be under the office politics umbrella, if you've ever tried to change them you know this is true).
It's rare that more technology actually fixes the problem. Usually getting more/new technology is a catalyst to changing the underlying social problems, or is just a workaround.
For example, my alma mater wants to implement a new thing to make service better on campus (sorry about the vague-ness, its about privacy of the people involved, and I'm not even supposed to know this). If the project goes through as originally planned, they'll save money and greatly improve services. But, it will never be approved without letting the CIO win a turf war in the process, so the project will end up spending an extra >$500k on unnecessary tech to do it her way. Did I mention this is a public school that really can't afford to be paying that much just to feed egos?
We're not trying to praise rogue employees for shunning corporate policies and opening up huge security holes.
The reality is that it's happening regardless. People are going to do what they feel they need to to get their job done.
Thus far, the general approach to dealing with this is to enforce more policy, block where possible, etc... which again, has done little to reduce employees from "going rogue".
We want to open the conversation on better ways to solve this problem since current methods simply aren't working.
As a network guy who gets that best understands the risks and consequences of unsecured, unsactioned clouds being used in a company - what would you suggest as potential solutions to give employees tools they need to get their job done, and the Company and IT the security it needs?
Interesting. Have you seen any specific case studies of organizations taking a CYOD strategy?
I wonder if this leads the way to CYOT / CYOC (Choose Your Own Tech / Choose Your Own Cloud) corporate strategies as well - same as BYOD paved the way to employees and business units turning to Shadow IT to get the tools they need.
I'd love to offer a case study, I believe we're going to put one out in the first half of next year.
My feeling is that BYOD is great for introducing IT to outsourcing, but CYOD is a form of outsourcing that IT departments find easier to stomach. Lord knows that NETSEC teams hate Shadow IT with a passion!
Choose your own tech already exists in a lot of enterprises (here's a choice of two laptops! You can use Chrome or Safari!), but it's coming into providence now because of BYOD.
UPDATE: We made a bunch of design improvements based primarily on your feedback. Really appreciate you guys all checking things out and providing good, honest feedback!
I've resized the logo so it's smaller. We're working on implementing a better payment gateway - the current page that's there now is temporary. Thanks for flagging the issue though with the oversized logo - it did look pretty terrible.
