Timeline for How do very big companies manage their most important passwords / keys?
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| Jul 30, 2020 at 12:25 | comment | added | user3067860 | IME there are also often underlying old business procedures that encourage this, too. For example, only having two levels of security... either it's not an official secret and you're stuck with your spreadsheet, or it is an official secret and there's a huge amount of red tape to go through to use it for anything. And the red tape is usually because processes are manual, so they are easier to 1) screw up and 2) not do whatever backup step, etc. In the automated process for DNS change at FB described in another answer, I bet they have a quick Undo--so it's safe to let it happen more often. | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 10:02 | comment | added | Aleks G | @goncalopp You are right, widely different between IT and accounting/finance. In "big tech", IT was a lot more up-to-date while backoffice functions used excel for everything, including password storage. | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 9:24 | comment | added | watchowl | @AleksG That's interesting, my experience was the opposite. Probably this varies wildly between departments? What kind of accounts are you talking about - internal business processes, finance, HR? anything handling user data or related to infrastructure? | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 8:20 | comment | added | Aleks G | @goncalopp I have worked for the "big tech". The number of spreadsheets with passwords and other confidential info was enormous. It's people, not companies, that make decisions. | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 7:27 | comment | added | watchowl | It's worth noting that while this is certainly true of many large companies, it's not the case with the companies OP used as example ("big tech") | |
| Jul 29, 2020 at 7:40 | comment | added | sleske | Interesting perspective about the human aspect. | |
| Jul 28, 2020 at 17:47 | comment | added | Aleks G | @JonBentley :)) | |
| Jul 28, 2020 at 17:46 | comment | added | Jon Bentley | What could possibly go wrong with storing passwords in a spreadsheet! | |
| Jul 28, 2020 at 16:51 | history | answered | Aleks G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |