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.

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    Disabled “unnecessary” services on all member servers including netlogon. That was a fun couple of weeks.

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      The “we’ll just disable everything until somebody complains” strategy. Idiots!

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        Often times it’s the only strategy because most admins or system owners have no clue what services they actually need