IT built a security exception register

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Allegedly because the shared password was last changed 34 days ago. Forked from a tutorial at 14:40 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Katrin, the management assistant

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an AI agent with production credentials

Database:

a Google Sheet with an Apps Script nobody remembers writing

Authentication:

the production URL still uses :8080

Deployment:

deployed through a GitHub Action that only Tobias understands

Responsible:

Priya, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Future disaster:

It will receive an innovation award.

Age: 19 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €188k per year, 31 users.