Erickson Baniaga

Governance

The rule for everyone else's tools, including mine.

Scope
any tool touching member data
Gate
sanctioned environment or nothing
First subject
my own tools

The problem

A company-wide push to use AI produced employee-built projects, several of them touching member data and intended for production. The conversation was being had as a project management problem when it was a compliance one.

The rule

A binary gate. Any project that touches member data runs inside the environment IT already governs (identity-aware proxy, secrets management, audit logging, models called through the company's cloud account) or it does not go to production. No exceptions for how small it is or who built it.

Why I had standing

The proposal engine already met the standard. It's easier to ask for a rule you're already following.