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The laptop thing is usually less about clawing back property and more about preventing the laptop, potentially with customer PII and source code and other stuff
by mrsilencedogood 3y ago
The laptop thing is usually less about clawing back property and more about preventing the laptop, potentially with customer PII and source code and other stuff on it, ending up sold on ebay or left laying around as a personal device to be eventually lost at an airport 3 years later, and so on. They take them back, wipe them, then either resell them to a reseller or reissue them to other employees etc.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoIndeed, the financial services firm I contribute at is required to remotely lock and wipe laptops when offboarding for compliance purposes, and that is somewhat consistent with the other FIs I’ve seen the inside of. How effective this is depends on an org's MDM story (people, process, controls).
- jupp0r 3y agoIf they are managed devices (which I hope they are at a fintech company), it should be trivial to remote wipe them before removing MDM from them to enable personal use/resale etc.
- nkohari 3y agoAs I understand it, it's a question of insurance. Either way, it's very common in larger companies to either reissue or physically destroy machines after an employee leaves.
- pwb25 3y agohow would you wipe them without an internet connection if I shut it off ?
- nunez 3y agothe minute it goes online, it gets the kill signal
- pwb25 3y agoi mean, you can get the information about getting laid off from email on the phone or another computer. then not connect it and download what you need then reinstall it
- jupp0r 3y agoYou can do everything you mentioned irrespective of whether you are allowed to keep the device or not (before it's physically collected by you former employer, which can take a few days).
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- jjav 3y agoThey just a remote wipe which surely a company that size is set up to do.
- Gabrys1 3y agoGood point!