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Originally Posted by Locke
In this day and age of security and the fact that agencies like CRA get hacked on the regular, the fact that you're trying to get important work done while some chucklehead is balancing his froot loops while juggling his cell phone and working off some third-rate laptop in his kitchen on his home wifi isn't helping.
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You think there are roving gangs of hackers in white vans patrolling the suburbs looking for wifi networks to break into? It's much easier to send a phishing email and let Karen from accounting give you the keys to the domain. And it doesn't matter if her laptop is in her dock in the office or at home on the VPN, the end result is the same
Half of IT security is trying to educate employees not to be brainless monkeys, and the other half is securing the network against those same brainless monkeys because you know the education won't work. Protecting against external threats is just having to remember to update your Palo Alto or Fortinet firmware