Getting Company Owners To Follow Their Own Rules?

techmage writes "Recently we had an issue at our small company that resulted in the loss of a lot of important data. To prevent it from happening again, we created a company-wide policy that all computers would return to IT to have their contents backed up, and the computers would be formatted and reloaded for the next user. Consistently the owners of the company break this and other policies we set up to prevent data loss, theft, etc. How do I get through to the bosses that when they break with the policies, they are potentially shooting the company in the foot?"

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It's so typical for whiny slashdotters...

[snikulin]

... to blame the user (the company owners in this case) instead of their own engineering impotency.
If you worth you salary, you should configure automatic background backups of their notebooks while the bosses are in the office.
If they are not in the office, backup to Amazon S3.

IT is not to nazy users around, IT is to *help* users.
Here, mod me down dumb IT morons.