Investor Relations built a vulnerability tracker

“The password changes every year.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Officially because the approval requires 6 people for a €2,400 purchase. With a logo generated at 17:44.

Built by:

Daniel, an intern

Build time:

8 evenings

Built with:

Claude, and no one quite sure what it changed

Database:

a Postgres database called prod

Authentication:

the password manager is memory

Deployment:

running on a server last patched 88 days ago

Responsible:

Nadia, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

a Miro board that takes 4 minutes to load

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for November and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into SAP and then quietly migrated back.

Age: 101 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 83 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 139 users, 36% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left.