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Re:Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords by ryandrake on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:24PM (#30873847)
I think the person in GP's story objected to the fact that the network connection she was told to use was not even limited internally to that law firm, but was astonishingly just whatever semi-private "building wifi" network happened to exist in the (presumably shared) building. If I were a lawyer and cared about client confidentiality, that would at least give me pause, regardless of whether the physical network was wired or wireless.
Re:Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords by jnwatson on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:54PM (#30874042)
That’s essentially what Google does. The outside-most network is not a security boundary.
Re:Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords by dantiberian on Thursday March 31, 2022 @09:20PM (#30874185)
Google doesn't use shared building wifi in their corporate campuses

> For both wired and wireless access, Google uses RADIUS servers to assign devices to an appropriate network, based on 802.1x authentication. We use dynamic, rather than static, VLAN assignment. This approach means that rather than relying on the switch/port static configuration, we use the RADIUS servers to inform the switch of the appropriate VLAN assignment for the authenticated device. Managed devices provide their certificate as part of this 802.1x handshake and are assigned to the unprivileged network, while unrecognized and unmanaged devices on the corporate network are assigned to a remediation or guest network. - https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

Yes BeyondCorp does allow access to corporate resources outside of the intranet, but as part of a managed device + identity + network evaluation.

Re:Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords by gerdesj on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:31PM (#30873896)
"If I were a lawyer"

Then you do your "due diligence" etc. I think we should all understand at a fairly basic level how wifi and wired works and what to do.

Fire up the VPN!