NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so she used her own
This is a classic story that gets repeated again and again, and security professionals should take note; if you forbid your users from doing something, they will route around you to do it, and it will be end up being less secure than if you were involved.<p>Haroon Meer says that saying &quot;no&quot; is a finite resource that security professionals are too willing to tap. If an organization comes to see your department as an obstacle that shoots down ideas and never contributes, you end up ignored. Chip in with ways to make bad ideas less bad, because we already know that deploying any vendor&#x27;s software is a loss to security.