Information Security built an employee onboarding checklist

“It's not shadow IT if the manager knows about it.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Mainly because Suppliers_new2_new2.xlsx is stored on Elena's desktop. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Chen, a working student

Build time:

3 hours 59 minutes

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE

Authentication:

the production token is in Slack

Deployment:

running in Docker Compose on a machine named production-2

Responsible:

Chen, who left 2 months ago

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

MFA exists for the admin account, which everybody shares

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 3.4 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 914 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 49% chance of becoming business critical, alive 177x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it.