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Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Krudler@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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One chestnut from my history in lottery game development:

While our security staff was incredibly tight and did a generally good job, oftentimes levels of paranoia were off the charts.

Once they went around hot gluing shut all of the "unnecessary" USB ports in our PCs under the premise of mitigating data theft via thumb drive, while ignoring that we were all Internet-connected and VPNs are a thing, also that every machine had a RW optical drive.

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[-] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Some corporate BS screen lock application that replaces the built in Windows feature. It would take several minutes to log in because of that.

Fortunately you can kill the process with taskmanager and prevent the screen from locking entirely. Lol.

[-] Muscle_Meteor@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

This is what i have to do to log into microsoft fuckin teams on my work laptop when i work from home...

Unencrypt my laptop hardrive
Log into my OS
Log into the VPN
Log into teams
Use the authenticator app on my phone to enter the code that is on my screen
Use my fingerprint on my phone to verify that i am the person using my phone...

Step 5 was introduced a few months ago because the other steps weren't secure enough. This is why half my colleagues aren't available when they work from home...

I suggested that we just use slack as our work chat and leave teams as a red herring to dissapoint extremely talented hackers.

[-] jasondj@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago

Don’t reuse passwords!

But make them complicated!

Don’t write them down!

Change them every week!

[-] Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Everything only needed because it only helps to meet a security standard and to lower insurance. So much useless outdated stuff.

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