OK, my company seems totally paranoid about security, but some of the claims seem a bit outlandish. Then again, I am a networking idiot.
We can't even connect out phones via usb to either charge or download work photos. I can see this as a possible security threat, but still. We can't use any run of the mill thumb-drive, we have to use some specially ordered thumb drive (all of 4 gig ) that costs like $100 supposedly. Note the thumbdrives work normally, not encrypted or password protected, or seem to scan anything transferred, etc., so not sure what the deal is. The "approved" thumbdrives also seem totally cheesy and not that well constructed (Kingston).
Also we cannot even connect a plain old digital camera. I assume there may be some risk from the SD cards? Also they claim they can "detect" such items connected to any PC and will come and confiscate said item.
I say mostly hogwash just to scare people "straight" to prevent viruses (since typical users are even bigger morons than I am ). Or can IT depts. actually play such Big Brother shens?
We can't even connect out phones via usb to either charge or download work photos. I can see this as a possible security threat, but still. We can't use any run of the mill thumb-drive, we have to use some specially ordered thumb drive (all of 4 gig ) that costs like $100 supposedly. Note the thumbdrives work normally, not encrypted or password protected, or seem to scan anything transferred, etc., so not sure what the deal is. The "approved" thumbdrives also seem totally cheesy and not that well constructed (Kingston).
Also we cannot even connect a plain old digital camera. I assume there may be some risk from the SD cards? Also they claim they can "detect" such items connected to any PC and will come and confiscate said item.
I say mostly hogwash just to scare people "straight" to prevent viruses (since typical users are even bigger morons than I am ). Or can IT depts. actually play such Big Brother shens?