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My company just announced they were hacked a third time in about a year and each time they get more and more…. Draconian, about security measures. Each time my

My company just announced they were hacked a third time in about a year and each time they get more and more…. Draconian, about security measures. Each time my job gets more and more difficult. I have to approve MFA requests on my phone around 6 times a day because the login timeouts are so low. Now they’re saying we aren’t going to be able to use our own devices, and must use the company-issued computers that are running Windows. That makes no sense. Force me to use the least secure OS because “we need to beef up security”. I do mostly data science work that lends itself to not only a *nix OS but Linux specifically. There are things I use to complete my work that are Linux-only, so I wouldn’t even want a Mac. I started job searching when this news dropped. Life is too short fellas. Life is too short. Make it harder to do my job, for no real reason beyond bureaucracy and politics, and I am out.

orev 4y ago
Using your own devices is called “BYOD”. There’s a joke in IT operations/security that the “D” stands for “Disaster”. It’s completely impossible to run a secure operation if people are allowed to use their own devices. If you cannot enforce standard builds, security policies, and updates, then you simply cannot be secure. Windows has come a long way in the past 20 years, and it is definitely on par with regards to security (in general) as other operating systems. However, it also has the advantage of being able to be joined to a domain where Group Policies can be pushed. No other OS has a meaningful equivalent of Group Policy (no, Ansible, etc don’t do the same thing, and would require an enormous amount of effort to replicate what Group Policy does). This post is talking about burn-out, and that definitely can cause negative emotions. But in your case, it sounds like you’re expecting to be treated as a special snowflake and they’re not having it. That would understandably cause negative emotions for you, but the underlying reason in your case is caused by a (probably) incorrect perception of yourself that you should get special treatment for some reason, and you’re having a tantrum because you’re not getting it.

orev 4y ago

Using your own devices is called “BYOD”. There’s a joke in IT operations/security that the “D” stands for “Disaster”. It’s completely impossible to run a secure operation if people are allowed to use their own devices. If you cannot enforce standard builds, security policies, and updates, then you simply cannot be secure. Windows has come a long way in the past 20 years, and it is definitely on par with regards to security (in general) as other operating systems. However, it also has the advantage of being able to be joined to a domain where Group Policies can be pushed. No other OS has a meaningful equivalent of Group Policy (no, Ansible, etc don’t do the same thing, and would require an enormous amount of effort to replicate what Group Policy does). This post is talking about burn-out, and that definitely can cause negative emotions. But in your case, it sounds like you’re expecting to be treated as a special snowflake and they’re not having it. That would understandably cause negative emotions for you, but the underlying reason in your case is caused by a (probably) incorrect perception of yourself that you should get special treatment for some reason, and you’re having a tantrum because you’re not getting it.