| > While nearly two-thirds of companies (60 percent)report they have corporate policies in place that prohibit such actions, respondents say there are no real deterrents for purchasing cloud services by stealth. In fact, 29 percent report there are no ramifications whatsoever and another 48 percent say it is little more than a warning. If it's such a big deal that employees are using Dropbox in the office, employ some of those Orwellian tactics bigcorps are so good at: block them. Block them and their entire CDN. Shut off access to Facebook, Google Drive and Box while you're at it. Make them use only corporate e-mail. Is being denied access (at work) to a service they purchased not ramification enough? Shall we draw and quarter them instead? You're not powerless, you're just myopic. I'd wager that if a corporation has a problem with employees using Dropbox, they've got problems with a lot of other stuff - so why not stamp it all out at once? Or, work with it! Embrace the growing cloud culture. Buy Dropbox for Teams, or Github Enterprise, or what have you. Clearly, your employees want it. Or, disband the thought and grow up. EDIT: Comment below generated while the site was not responding to requests. > 503 Service Unavailable It appears the "Shadow IT" has won this round. |
You can't work with it, because of liability. If you bless Dropbox and champion it to the rest of management, it becomes your problem when the inevitable data breach happens.
But you don't want to stamp it out all at once, because: 1. CIOs know that cutting off things people want really badly just leads to better circumvention tech (more people running proxies or using 3G laptops, etc) and suddenly you can't even watch what they're doing, let alone stop it.
2. Those things are useful. Just because the Enterprise can't make peace with limitations or find a suitable analogue doesn't mean those tools don't legitimately make people more productive.