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I've told this one before, but I worked for a company that had a "lose your laptop and get fired" policy. They also had full disk encryption and remote wiping
by jtbigwoo 13y ago
I've told this one before, but I worked for a company that had a "lose your laptop and get fired" policy. They also had full disk encryption and remote wiping capability, but I guess someone up top thought a preventative policy was needed. I don't think anyone ever got fired and the policy was rescinded after a year, but it definitely clarified my focus when it came to keeping my laptop secure on the road.
- msh 13y agoso if you were unlucky and got mugged you would be fired, sounds like a really bad policy...
- dpcan 13y agoMy guess is top management may have been more worried about employees selling their laptops with trade secrets on them and then claiming they were stolen.
- jtbigwoo 13y agoIt was a bad policy for all sorts of reasons, but there had been a really careless loss the previous year. Something like a hundred thousand customer credit files were left on an unencrypted laptop in the back of a reeturned rental car. Like I said, they rescinded it before anybody actually got fired. You can usually learn more about the history of a company by reading its employee handbook than by reading its "About Us" page.
- jonknee 13y agoThe new policy should have been if you have unencrypted credit files on your laptop (or desktop) you are fired. That's the inexcusable behavior, not the loss of a laptop.
- feral 13y agoDoesn't sound like a good idea to me - what about the unintended consequences? If an employee's laptop goes missing, you want them to promptly notify IT, so that measures can be taken to plug any security holes. You don't want them to try to hide the loss - or even to delay, while they try recover the laptop themselves - which they might do if they believe they'll get fired for reporting it missing.