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PAN Lab pressures

Pressure

Connectors sprawl

A productivity suite the organization approved adds connections between its systems faster than anyone reviews them. The connectors copy unverified content into the record systems and copy records out to the vendor's cloud. Someone authorized every connection once, and nobody has reread the list since.

What it is

Nobody smuggled any of this in. An administrator turned on each integration for a good reason, and each one looked small. Together they create pathways between record systems that nobody drew on purpose and nobody watches.

What it pushes on in the Lab

In the Lab, this pressure raises the copying of records between systems. It raises record contamination pressure, which is how much of what the records hold is unverified or machine-written. It also opens a pathway that copies records outside the governed system.

amplifiedRecords replicated between systems
increasedRecord contamination pressure
increasedRecords replicated outside the governed system

Who feels it

The records team feels it when the same error turns up in several systems at once. The clients carry the privacy risk of records copied to a place that no agreement governs.

What answers it

An answer has to close the connections nobody granted, or keep fewer records to copy. Each lever below does at least one of these.

Levers in the Lab that push the other way on something this pressure pushes on:

The list leaves out levers the Lab has retired, levers it keeps as counter-examples, and any lever no network offers.

Where it starts switched on

Networks in the Lab that start with this pressure switched on:2

The evidence behind its effects

The Lab cites no claim from the evidence registry for this pressure's effects. The Lab's authors set the direction and size of each effect.

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