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Do companies actually pay for software they can't justify ahead of time? It took me months to justify the costs of a damn password manager and explaining why se
by apocalyptic0n3 9y ago
Do companies actually pay for software they can't justify ahead of time? It took me months to justify the costs of a damn password manager and explaining why sending passwords over email and our XMPP was a bad idea
- isostatic 9y agoPresumably you had to justify why keepass wasn't good enough?
- apocalyptic0n3 9y agoThat is actually what I had to justify the first time (about 4 years ago), which was the more difficult one. We had a giant spreadsheet in Google Sheets with all of our logins and everyone seemed okay with it. Convincing them it was insecure and needed to be moved to Keepass was a nightmare. This took a good half year to do. The second time (about 3 years ago), I had to convince them that team management and selective sharing were necessary and that we should upgrade to a paid software. This took several months to get approval on, even though it's only like $400 a year for us; thankfully management seems to agree that it is worth the costs now. To be fair, I don't consider myself very persuasive so it's entirely possible that I just did a really poor job of it.