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To be clear, I know how I could get around it... and I am not planning to do that... I am asking how can we progress the IT point of view and allow enterprises to adopt these revolutionary tools rather than fear them. Is it a lost cause?
Your best bet is to find some white-label/internal solution similar to dropbox and get your IT guys to install it... but it'll be tough to convince them that the benefits outweigh the costs (everything IT does costs 10x more than you think it should).
The reason that enterprises have IT departments is so that they can control everything in house. The saas model (dropbox and similar remotely hosted services) doesn't really fit here because it separates IT from the services that it is supposed to manage (think of the legal and security mess of spreading your company's data to a bunch of 3rd party services). Your best bet is to find some white-label/internal solution…
Not sure companies will survive and be competent if it all goes this way...
Do we need FDIC (from the banking world) for data?
If anyone from Dropbox is listening/interested I may be able to setup a conversation with the IT guys if you are working on a solution... email me.
Tarsnap is a good starting point, but it's CLI, doesn't work on Windows, and isn't really geared to big businesses.
At the same time, a lot of people email sensitive documents into and out of enterprises without any sort of encryption. I'm not sure which is worse.
(no, I'm not a enterprise IT guy :-)
Focus on your needs and ask IT to develop a way for you to access your corporate resources on the go.
What I've seen again and again is people just routing around them. And around any other corp strategies that stop them from getting their jobs done.
How is dropbox a revolutionary tool? Fileservers have existed for quite some time. File server accessible over the internet have existed for quite some time. (It was easy even in windows 95). Focus on your needs and ask IT to develop a way for you to access your corporate resources on the go.