Purchase and Use of Unmanaged Corporate Hardware

The subject purchases a laptop (or similar endpoint) using a corporate payment method but does so outside established procurement and provisioning processes. By bypassing IT and asset management workflows, the subject introduces a corporate-funded but unmanaged device into the environment.

Such devices often lack standard security controls—such as endpoint detection and response (EDR), encryption, configuration baselines, or patching—and may not be tracked in asset inventory systems. While the subject may rationalize the purchase as operationally necessary (e.g., urgency, convenience, or perceived lack of IT responsiveness), the result is a sanctioned but invisible device with the potential to bypass monitoring and governance controls.

This behavior undermines organizational asset control, complicates investigative attribution, and introduces unmanaged endpoints capable of accessing sensitive networks and data.