The unintended consequences of good security

No laptop My bag felt light yesterday morning. I didn’t think much of it until I got to the station and realised why: my laptop was still at home. For a moment, I considered going back. Twenty minutes home, a couple of minutes to grab it, then perhaps another thirty to get back to the station. I’d lose an hour, possibly my parking space and maybe another train. Everything would be getting tight for my first meeting. So I decided to chance it. Maybe I don’t need a laptop Actually, most of my day would be fine. I had my work phone for a Teams call and could take notes on that too. The RFP response I needed to review would have to wait until I got home, and I’d need to work into the evening, but that wasn’t the end of the world. In some ways, it was a nice demonstration of how much less dependent we’ve become on a particular device. Then I remembered the presentation. The deck was in OneDrive and I’d sent a link to my team the day before. I could open it on my work phone, but that wasn’t…