re: #82 Fozzie Bear

Little by little, I am impressing upon the attorneys here the need for security. There’s only about 15 workstations here, it’s a small firm. I’m the informal IT guy (actually I’m here for legal research purposes, but I’m the tech guy by default) and the owners of the workstations are the partners, in part, and I have yet to fully impress upon them the need for uniformity in certain areas. It’s hard to give your bosses orders, even when it’s good for them.

Group policies are sadly out of the question. They will use alternatives if I really push on the issue, so that’s the tack I have to take. It’s part IT, part diplomacy. And it’s all part-time, while I’m not doing other things.

I finally got the partners to stop using iPhones, and agree not to use them at work, subsequent to one of them getting hacked. They are just far too insecure to use in this kind of work.

So I’m guessing a baseline build, centralized patch management and firewalls are right out then.