--- title: Securely Useless | daily.dev description: A UK company's push to comply with the CyberEssentials security standard crippled its software development work. People were denied the right to install and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/securely-useless-ru3etfdf6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Securely Useless | daily.dev og:description: A UK company's push to comply with the CyberEssentials security standard crippled its software development work. People were denied the right to install and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/securely-useless-ru3etfdf6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RU3eTFdF6.png og:image:alt: Securely Useless og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Securely Useless **[The Daily WTF](https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A UK company's push to comply with the CyberEssentials security standard crippled its software development work. People were denied the right to install and run unapproved software, could not easily connect across networks, or attach hardware for testing, so a shadow network of unofficial PCs sprang up. Management eventually approved a second, less secure network to host dev, test, wikis and internal tools, keeping the 'core business' on the locked-down side. That protected core turned out to be just an outdated documentation share, while the 'secondary' network was about eight times larger and full of essential activity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [From Core to Edge: Building Secure, Always-On Infrastructure for Global Mobile Networks](https://daily.dev/posts/from-core-to-edge-building-secure-always-on-infrastructure-for-global-mobile-networks-ahm7auqva) · Cisco · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.](https://daily.dev/posts/the-cyber-perimeter-was-never-dead-we-just-abandoned-it--idrodgzev) · CSO Online · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#networking](https://daily.dev/tags/networking), [#compliance](https://daily.dev/tags/compliance) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/securely-useless-ru3etfdf6) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Securely Useless","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/securely-useless-ru3etfdf6","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/securely-useless-ru3etfdf6"},"datePublished":"2026-10-26T11:57:54.441Z","dateModified":"2026-10-26T12:08:43.930Z","description":"A UK company's push to comply with the CyberEssentials security standard crippled its software development work. 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