Data Governance · Access · Component

The workarounds

Where people are routing around access controls, and why — because exported spreadsheets are a symptom rather than a violation.

The deliverable

What it is

Over-restriction produces exported spreadsheets, shared logins and people asking colleagues to run queries for them. All three are worse for security than the access would have been.

The workaround is evidence that a legitimate need was not met, and treating it as misconduct guarantees it moves somewhere less visible.

One level in

What it is made of

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  1. The behaviour

    What people are actually doing.

    3 attributes: Workaround · Type · How common

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  2. The need

    What legitimate need is unmet.

    3 attributes: Need · Why the official route fails · Time to obtain properly

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  3. The fix

    What changed to remove the need for the workaround.

    3 attributes: Fix · Type · Workaround stopped

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Enforcement without a fix moves the workaround somewhere less visible, which is worse than where it was.