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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    1 year ago

    Having been exposed to those kinds of audits before that’s really just bad handling by the CTO and other higher ups!

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      1 year ago

      Oh, I agree. Just one reason I decided to move on to a different employer.