KrudlerOct 23, 2023

Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit?

https://lemmy.world/post/7232834

Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit? - Lemmy.World

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.

Show threadbody_by_makeOct 23, 2023

Often times you’ll find that the crazy things IT does are forced on them from higher ups that don’t know shit.

A common case of this is requiring password changes every x days, which is a practice that is known to actively make passwords worse.

Show threadlinearchaosOct 24, 2023
Forcing password expiration does cause people to make shittier passwords. But when their passwords are breached programitically or through social engineering They don’t just sit around valid for years on the dark web waiting for someone to buy them up.
Show threadbody_by_makeOct 24, 2023
This requirement forces people who can’t otherwise remember passwords to fall into patterns like (kid’s name)(season)(year), this is a very common password pattern for people who have to change passwords every 90 days or so. Breaching the password would expose the pattern and make it easy enough to guess based off of.
Show threadlinearchaos

99% of password theft currently comes from phishing. Most of the people that get fished don’t have a freaking clue they got fished oh look the Microsoft site link didn’t work.

Complex passwords that never change don’t mean s*** when your users are willing to put them into a website.

Oct 24, 2023 at 3:38pmWeb