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.
I understand, I often have to explain to large groups of people why we make the choices we make as a security team and it’s not always a very popular thing I make a lot of people upset because security and convenience don’t really work well together.