New municipal laptops ship straight to end users with local administrator rights and no full-disk encryption. Which asset-security practice was skipped?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Handing out keys to the whole house and skipping the deadbolt is not "getting people productive faster." New laptops should leave IT already locked down, encrypted, and tied to a real user identity. Secure provisioning is the on-ramp that makes every other control possible.
Full Explanation
Secure provisioning establishes assets in a known-good state: configuration baselines, disk encryption, removal of unnecessary local admin rights, and binding to organizational identity and management tools. Issuing unmanaged, unencrypted endpoints with elevated privileges expands the attack surface from day one. Asset security expects controls at introduction, not only after compromise.