One chestnut from my history in lottery game development:
While our security staff was incredibly tight and did a generally good job, oftentimes levels of paranoia were off the charts.
Once they went around hot gluing shut all of the “unnecessary” USB ports in our PCs under the premise of mitigating data theft via thumb drive, while ignoring that we were all Internet-connected and VPNs are a thing, also that every machine had a RW optical drive.
One IT security team insisted we have separate source code repositories for production and development environments.
I’m honestly not sure how they thought that would work.
That’s fucking bananas.
In my job, the only difference between prod/dev is a single environmental file. Two repositories would literally serve no purpose and if anything, double the chances of having the source code be stolen.
Just manually copy-paste everything. That never goes wrong, right?
I mean, it’s what the Security guys do, right? Just copy+paste everything, mandate that everyone else does it too, Management won’t argue because it’s for “security” reasons.
Then the Security guys will sit around jerking each other off about how much more secure they made the system
Could work if dev was upstream from prod. But honestly there would be no difference between that and branches.
Maybe it is a rights issue. Preventing a prod build agent of sorts to access develop code.
Yeah…assuming that the policy was written “from blood” (meaning someone did something stupid).
But even then you can put other checks and balances in place to make sure that kind of thing doesn’t happen.
This is such an extreme reaction though. Or the policy was made from someone dumb
Yep doing that now. Not sustainable in the slightest. Im glad im not in charge of that system.