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My scenario: A production facility that uses data sets provided by customer(s) to produce personalized goods in bulk. Data sets can range from 100,000 to 2,000,000 names and addresses in the US. This isn’t PCI and doesn’t fall under HIPP… Continue reading What are the best practices in a manufacturing/production facility for data retention?
I’ve asked if I could continue working from home. They said ok. The laptop belongs to the company with VPN on it. From home I’ll connect the laptop to my personal network/rooter with wifi. When I’ll deliver the laptop I’ll change my person… Continue reading Job laptop and VPN, security concerns for home network?
In my life, I have spent a lot of time thinking and wondering about many things related to larger businesses, even though I have no direct connection to that world. By “larger”, I mean “not just a single carpenter or him and … Continue reading Do large companies keep a detailed "company log" book/database? [closed]
As I try to come up with company regulations for IT security, the question arose if employees can use their company provided iPhones 8 for personal matters. Specifically they want to install spotify (and probably other apps l… Continue reading Is it a good (or not harmful) idea to allow employees to use their company phones privately?
We have a software system with several different users (let’s say 10) and a single super user. A super user is a regular user with the privileges needed for managing other user accounts.
This is a production control softwar… Continue reading Handing login information to the customer
I’ve worked for a variety of technologies companies. In working for startups I’ve noticed a wide variety of opinions about whether sharing calendars is a security risk. I can imagine that it would be bad if someone learned … Continue reading What are the risks from letting users share their own calendars?
A while ago I was reading an article on a concept which was essentially determining what information or processes are too risky to be digital or online and keeping them or moving them back to their analog equivalent. I wanted… Continue reading What is the concept called that is all about moving digital info back to analog equivalents?
Fresh install, I go to Logitech to get app for my mouse. Popups for driver cleaners etc. Easy to find but one it seems loaded from common files to my services and secure like some are, as not to disable, right. Well I get the… Continue reading Unknown app. Left after getting rid of about 5 others! [on hold]
Can a VPN gateway enforce policies in form of checking whether a particular software or set of software is installed on the endpoint and based on that allow / deny the remote connection to be established ?
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I’m reading a security policy, which seems to be a system security policy and there is an item that requires the system to implement a specific standard, something like “Implement the standard XYZ”. Standard XYZ specifies a … Continue reading Is this a "valid" security policy item?