One chestnut from my history in lottery game development:

While our security staff was incredibly tight and did a generally good job, oftentimes levels of paranoia were off the charts.

Once they went around hot gluing shut all of the “unnecessary” USB ports in our PCs under the premise of mitigating data theft via thumb drive, while ignoring that we were all Internet-connected and VPNs are a thing, also that every machine had a RW optical drive.

    • ArgentCorvid [Iowa]
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      1 year ago

      Let me guess, the list is about 6 items long with no provision for getting any added

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        1 year ago

        No, it was quite extensive (20-30?) and we (I) kept expanding it. I even added icons for each app so it looked nice.

        All published software was approved by Cybersecurity. We allowed people to request apps and evaluated each case.