How is your security at work? (middle class, businesses, temp, agency)
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HAHAHAHAHA Security..... non-existent here except for the guns most of the shop employees have in their cars..... Loved when I worked for a food manufacturing company - due to FDA (the in-house inspectors) and Food safety regulations we had a guard gate. NO ONE got thru that gate.... they weren't armed (thank god) - but they wouldn't open that gate for anyone - even employees if they forgot their pass. They'd have to wait for HR to okay their entrance. They even held the Owner one morning - just on principle. He couldn't get angry.
I work from home, so of course I can't say how the physical security is. But for the most part on terms of their system security, it is mostly pretty bad. They sometimes have us take mandatory training, and it's all bound to so God awful version of Internet Explorer (like IE 8 or something stupid like that). On top of that, the VPN gives you nothing. It only allows you to access certain portals for the company which you don't need outside mandatory trainings (which are all bound to IE 8, which is insecure). Most people don't use the corporate VPN for anything. So everyone just create whitelist for themselves inside of AWS. And there is no real way of deprovisioning someone. So someone could theoretically have access to the systems months after they leave the company.
They also run a lot of their backoffice apps on Windows servers. Some of them are on Windows 2003. Now to any person who understands security, you already know Windows isn't the most secure operating system. But running things on Windows 2003 is an even worse idea. Considering that it's no longer supported, and has many known security exploits.
One of the great things about the lack of security though. I don't use the companies laptop, which is some huge windows laptop that weighs a ton. I can port just about everything to my Macbook. so when I decide to work from a starbucks, I don't have to be weighed down by my company issued laptop that weights 1 billion pounds. And the Macbook is a far more pleasant experience as a developer. Though admittedly when docked at home, the company laptop feels much better.
Qualified, able, and willing. Armed with AR-15 rifles, .40 cal handguns, and other things I will not mention. My only beef is that they train to the test, and imo lack some imagination by presuming the way an attack would come.
My husband works at a corporate HQ doing security. They have multiple armed guards on duty around the clock, the guards all wear bulletproof vests, they've had training in active shooter response on computer simulations and in their own buildings, the guards are certified in first aid and respond to medical emergencies. Other companies send their security managers to look at the setup so they can try to get something similar going in their own companies.
I worked for a temp agency (In conjunction with HP) and one night we had a fire alarm go off. "Where is security?" many asked. I knew that security left at 11pm or 10 pm depending on when it came in. In short, the building was "Unprotected" from 11 pm till 6 am.
The building did have "Card Key" entrance 24hrs, but we had had 2 homeless people get in and find sleeping places for a short while. (They entered with others at the same time, even though signs said not to permit this)
If someone broke a window, started a fire or shot someone, it depended on someone calling for help to get a response.
I have worked other jobs (Once for Federal Reserve stacking coin sacks and the security there was deep and total). I never worried someone would come in and shoot the place up, but thought that was a cheap way to operate.
I work in nursing homes, they don't generally have security. If a fire breaks out, the fire department is alerted automagically when the alarms go off (happened to me once, and it was not fun trying to evacuate the affected wings).
Qualified, able, and willing. Armed with AR-15 rifles, .40 cal handguns, and other things I will not mention. My only beef is that they train to the test, and imo lack some imagination by presuming the way an attack would come.
Wait, so is this a kindergarten classroom or something in trump’s world??
Aside from government facilities, most places I've worked had no real security. It's just your typical office building - not a multi-tenant hi-rise where you may have a bunch of different companies and a guard desk in the lobby. But we own the entire building - so the front desk is usually a receptionist as opposed to a guard. The physical security is then via badge access. The datacenter may have additional security (mantraps or palm scanners).
In the private sector, I've personally never worked in a building where you had actual security guards. Then again, most of the locations I've been in were out in suburbia, not downtown. I have visited client sites where they had security guards, etc.
Ironically - I did some contracting for the US HHS. And the main building in downtown D.C. is super relaxed - you walk in and flash your badge and they wave you in. Where a small OpDiv outside of D.C. was like going through TSA. Bags through the xray machine, metal detector, and badge swipe through the gate. The building was within business park located within a fairly high-end neighborhood.
I work at a public library, so by its very nature, anyone can enter the building (and stay as long as you're following the basic rules). Even our staff entrance is open until 5:15pm, when we lock it for the evening workers - mostly because there are fewer of us working after 6, so there might not be anyone in back to notice a stranger walking in. We actually had a "rogue pooper" for a time, who'd pop in and use our staff restroom then leave. That's one of the reasons we started locking that door, lol.
As for emergencies, we're all technically required and trained to assist with various situations... we even had an "active shooter" training once, which was surprisingly helpful. We also happen to be next door to the local Police Dept, so they can show up quickly if/when needed. That's about it, though!
Wait, so is this a kindergarten classroom or something in trump’s world??
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