VPN Gateway

Our IT service provider suggested we have a VPN gateway so we could access the company servers remotely. A good idea for the sales team to hit the road, log-in, do all their reporting (or whatever it is sales people pretend to do with their laptops) and handy for us web guys, except that we're always stuck in the damn office!

We never really used the VPN gateway but it was there.

And then, 6 months later, when our IT service provider performed a network security assessment they deemed the VPN gateway a security risk, a potential breach of our network and so it got canned.

Who had the executive decision on this? Yep, that's correct, the boss. What an idiot.