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Forget the technical details. I work in a corporate security department and if yours finds out what you're doing there's high odds they would absolutely hate it. I mean it likely isn't an issue for org security (assuming they're using bitlocker appropriately etc.) But not everyone over security is so rational and there are edge case attacks which may even trouble more sensible individuals. Either get permission, expect to do this in secret, or better yet just don't.
Exactly. This is a terrible idea. I'm fairly certain that anyone caught doing this would be immediately fired at some companies.
Yeah... I really don't see the motives to do this either. Possibly:
I guess if you're traveling and you have to bring 2 laptops.
Or you can't afford a PC with the same specs as your work laptop.
Both of those situations don't warrant booting work laptop to external personal HD though.
Not to mention you really can't hide that other drive from windows, and I'm sure a lot of the security tools would start screaming about new storage added when not expected. Data Loss Prevention is a big deal and random storage showing up doesn't often mean the user has good things planned.
Data loss/leak prevention would vehemently disagree. It's a potential exfiltration point, especially if the org is blocking USB writes.
Networking might have a thing or two to say about it as well, as it is essentially an untrusted setup on company networks
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