Internal Tools Built as Notebooks or Spreadsheets Rarely Become Secure Real Apps
Non-engineer employees regularly build internal workflow logic in notebooks or spreadsheets, but these never graduate into secured, production tools because engineering teams have higher-priority work. This leaves ad hoc, hardcoded, unauthenticated tools running critical processes (such as fraud-detection thresholds) without proper access control or credential handling.
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