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Paper factory fired its sysadmin. He returned via VPN and caused $1m in damage. Now jailed

Roland6 Silver badge

Why BYOD is not a good idea...

"They found a VPN connection into the company's servers on his laptop, and a subsequent forensic investigation of his hard drive and broadband router got enough evidence to bust him."

There are two parts to this. Firstly, there is the case that an employee has company access credentials on their laptop - don't know the details of this case, but if access uses certificates then this is a major problem. Secondly, as a departing sysadmin/superuser, you don't really want (unauthorised) valid access credentials to remain on your machine as naturally if something untoward happens after you leave you will be an automatic suspect.

Hence why I think BYOD is probably going to die out in security aware organisations...

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