{"id":13521,"date":"2018-10-05T02:30:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T10:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/10\/05\/news-7288\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T02:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T10:30:03","slug":"news-7288","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/10\/05\/news-7288\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to lock the security team in a hotel room?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

IT security has laptops at this company really locked down, and that includes only limited admin rights, reports a road warrior pilot fish.<\/p>\n

“On a recent trip, at my hotel I had to make an internet connection and open a web page to log into the hotel’s internet service before I could get a connection to the real internet,” fish says.<\/p>\n

“Problem was, the work laptop was not going to let me use the browsers until I had established a VPN connection, which of course I could not do without the web page login.<\/p>\n

“In a way, that was good — I took some real vacation time.<\/p>\n

“In another way, it was bad, I have big hands and fingers, so using an iPhone and those stupid virtual keyboards is a one-finger, error-prone task. An email that could take seconds to type on a full-size keyboard takes minutes on the phone.<\/p>\n

“The ironic part is that the whole idea of giving us laptops is so we can be mobile and respond to emergencies, no matter where we are…”<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/category\/security\/index.rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

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IT security has laptops at this company really locked down, and that includes only limited admin rights, reports a road warrior pilot fish.<\/p>\n

“On a recent trip, at my hotel I had to make an internet connection and open a web page to log into the hotel’s internet service before I could get a connection to the real internet,” fish says.<\/p>\n

“Problem was, the work laptop was not going to let me use the browsers until I had established a VPN connection, which of course I could not do without the web page login.<\/p>\n

“In a way, that was good — I took some real vacation time.<\/p>\n

“In another way, it was bad, I have big hands and fingers, so using an iPhone and those stupid virtual keyboards is a one-finger, error-prone task. An email that could take seconds to type on a full-size keyboard takes minutes on the phone.<\/p>\n

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