Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit?
Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit?
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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The network has been subnetted into departments. Problem: I, from development, get calls from service about devices that have issues. Before the subnetting, they simply told me the serial number, and I let my army of diagnosis tools hit the unsuspecting device to get an idea what's up with it. Now they have to bring it over and set up all the attached devices here so I can run my tests.
Surely IT can make an exception for you or create a VM with multiple NICs for you.
Or configure a local port on the dev vlan... Sounds like a corporate environment where the many IT teams dont talk to each other, or network team are hiding out in a comms cupboard.
Oh my... no.