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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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[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hasn't made life hell, but the general dumb following of compliance has left me baffled:

users must not be able to have a crontab. Crontab for users disabled.
compliance says nothing about systemd timers, so these work just fine 🤦

I've raised it with security and they just shrugged it off. Wankers.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats really funny. Made my day thanks.

Are they super old school and not know about systemd? Or are they doing something out of compliance that they may hate too? I have so many questions.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually think they're new school enough where Linux to them means a lot less than it does to us. And so they don't feel at home on a Linux machine and, unfortunately, don't care to learn.

I could totally be wrong, though. Maybe I'm the moron.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I dont think your the moron. Thats super strange. I can only think it might be some sort of standard that they had to comply with....or whatever.