Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack
by jrochkind1 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:17PM
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So, at your workplace, do you put unpickable locks on everyone's individual office door and enforce a policy that all doors are locked when not occupied (or heck even when occupied), so you won't have to "deal with" some insane coworker trashing someone elses office? How about tracking of who is in the bathroom when, with camera monitoring, so you can deal with it in case someone smears their poop on the walls?
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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack
by ryanisnan on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:42PM
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You are joking, right?
Laptops and physical property are one thing. But your digital empire of customer data is another. Encryption, MFA, inactivity based locking, access controls, and the principle of least privilege helps ensure that when something inevitably does happen, the blast radius is contained.
I don't really care if someone were to smash the hell out of the office. Laptops are locked. Data is encrypted. That's why in fact we have insurance.
But a disgruntled or even careless employee could irreversibly damage an enterprise by letting happen (or deliberately causing) a data breach. All because the org didn't want to bother "dealing with" access controls.
Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack
by johnchristopher on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:39PM
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Way more likely that someone presses that delete button in a temporary tantrum or by mistake than a coworker randomly trashing someone else's office (there are telling signs after all).
It's also way easier, cheaper and practical to prevent the first example than the second one.