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Not taking your laptop home is poor information security practice. We had a break-in where dozens of laptops were stolen. We had to do key rolling, password res
by jdavis703 7y ago
Not taking your laptop home is poor information security practice. We had a break-in where dozens of laptops were stolen. We had to do key rolling, password resets, etc for the whole organization. Many people couldn't even work until new computers were shipped in. Of course me and the people who took our laptops home were fine.
- bot1 7y agoyou cant be serious
- ironic_ali 7y agoVirtue signalling is a thing...
- chosenbreed37 7y agoIn a recent office I worked in they were just looking for the large iMac screens :-) Although I don't think there were any laptops lying around...
- mftrhu 7y agoSounds like the organization you work for should have spent more in security.
- jdavis703 7y agoThe thieves climbed up to the second floor and smashed a window. I'm not sure what kind of security could have prevented this.
- mftrhu 7y agoEyes on the building. Bars/shutters on the windows. An alarm system. Caltrops on the floor. A locked room with a decent door for the laptops, and/or a strongbox. Africanized killer bees. Full-disk encryption on the laptops themselves. There's plenty of reasonable measures that organizations can take to protect their equipment and data. "Give the laptops to the employees, they might be stolen if left in the building" is not one of them, not if they care at all about information security.
- prepend 7y agoThis is a curious statement. Why would someone having a bunch of laptops require password resets? Weren’t the laptops properly configured so physical access != network access? If not, then having people commuting with these timebombs is not a good idea. As it’s much more likely that a laptop will be stolen from a worker’s home or car or anywhere than the office.