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.
Haha, I never thought of this but…I WAS the IT department in a previous life. I never really thought about how none of this shit really affected me. Granted, I’d have everyone using Yubikeys+Password for logins if I were in charge now.
Yubikey enforcement is ass in AD.
We’ve moved to SilverFort. It allows WAAAY more visibility and control over the things that matter, and it’s diagnostics and easy policy generation from lookups is great.