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.
They were just paranoid dopes.
I would hear them talking about IT security the way 10 year old boys talk about defending their fort from zombies.
So… what was the zombie situation tho? Were they at least on top of that?
Well if we’re following the metaphor, yes they were completely on top of preventing imaginary threats that wouldn’t realistically ever materialize lol