Steve Berry

UK

Infrastructure Architect

Oh and another thing !
One of the most basic/simple tennants of IT Security is the concept of minimising the "attack surface" and creating a traceable infrastructure to allow potential breaches to be monitored.
What BP are effectively saying is "Oh, we really don't care about the attack surface". We've got 18,000 laptops we're just going to make available to hackers. We're so confident in firewalls we're willing to risk our business on it.
They're going against years of toil and sweat in the field of security based research based on what ???
Well all I can say is good luck.
Why won't I be surprised if the time comes that some poor unfortunate sod(s) from BP gets his/her/their books over this !
You guys/gals *really* need to take another look at what you're doing, research it and think it through.
What you're proposing is just plain nuts !