Absolutely - I don't understand why this is "new", "odd" or "difficult". I work for an European company (travel/tourism) and the day they hired me (4 years ago

Absolutely - I don't understand why this is "new", "odd" or "difficult". I work for an European company (travel/tourism) and the day they hired me (4 years ago) I got a corporate laptop with Windows 7 which would accept usb mouses, keyboards, charge smartphones... but would not "mount" anything that had storage. Interestingly enough I can connect my (personal) iPhone, and I can read pictures stored there, but I cannot write to it - I haven't tried installing iTunes because I don't need to backup to my work laptop so no idea how it would work with dedicated sw, but for sure there is no need to use epoxy glue or physical locks. (Granted, I never tried to see how strong the protection was because it's not my specialty and frankly I don't care, but it looks like it works well enough as it is).