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Request review of access control policy updates #349

Open warmanaMOJ opened 2 years ago

warmanaMOJ commented 2 years ago

Hello @L-Crosby and @cybersquirrel

Following feedback and updates, the access control material has been revised and updated. Previews of the material are available as follows:

Please may I request a review of these updates?

A full set of the changes introduced may be previewed here.

Many thanks.

cybersquirrel commented 2 years ago

Hello @warmanaMOJ,

The changes all appear sensible enough to me, with the exception of the Device Access Control policy. I don't understand what we're trying to achieve with this one, as it seems to fly in the opposite direction of a Zero Trust architecture. I can see circumstances where it's important to control which devices can be on a given bearer network (such as in the prison context, and we have text in our WiFi policy along these lines). I think I must be missing something!

Jon.

cybersquirrel commented 2 years ago

Hello,

Further to our chat earlier, I think I can refine my question on this. The policy talks about a "protected network" - but this term doesn't seem to be defined. So if it's all MoJ networks then my question above applies; if it's a subset of MoJ networks, then depending on what the subset is, all may be well in the world.

Thank you!

Jon.