I’m well-aware of how corporate policy, liability, and hierarchy works - the issue with your take is that you act like the IT team is innocent to somebody higher up on the ladder. My issue isn’t with the concept of policy itself (and the enforcement thereof) and the issue of liability, but with the misplaced absolution of IT teams from any responsibility when things go wrong.
IT teams are essentially the secret police in companies. I’m aware of how they usually function. I’ve heard many first-hand accounts from those behind the big screens making sure Bob doesn’t watch porn or that somebody doesn’t do something unauthorized with company computers. I’m unimpressed and it’s frankly a dystopian twist of what IT actually should be; which is best serving a company’s technical needs collaboratively - not roleplaying as the NSA.
It effectively shouldn’t be possible for Bob to watch porn on company devices/internet. It shouldn’t be possible or desirable for somebody to skirt policy to run binaries (even on a whim) for software they feel that they require for maximum productivity. There should be reasonable, timely, and accessible procedures for employees to request necessary software to be deployed.
If I recall correctly in another part of the thread, a user discussed a group of employees (including themselves) needing WSL for job duties and it being blocked without notice. This is an example of sheer incompetence of the IT team - blocking necessary software and failing to maintain/establish timely and accessible procedures to contest a block as an employee who needs specific software to function in their job.
Required software should never be blocked - so who is at fault? Who caused the most damage to the company? The people attempting to work? Or the people who have no idea what they’re doing; making employees feel they need to completely disregard them to function in their duties - the people sabotaging operations?
You’re free to fantasize about the little guy as the only one getting disciplined in these scenarios. I’m sure most corporate environments do work like that, but it just protects incompetency - unless, again, the employee went out of their way to run the binary in an abnormal way or otherwise had less than ideal intentions.
I’m well-aware of how corporate policy, liability, and hierarchy works - the issue with your take is that you act like the IT team is innocent to somebody higher up on the ladder. My issue isn’t with the concept of policy itself (and the enforcement thereof) and the issue of liability, but with the misplaced absolution of IT teams from any responsibility when things go wrong.
IT teams are essentially the secret police in companies. I’m aware of how they usually function. I’ve heard many first-hand accounts from those behind the big screens making sure Bob doesn’t watch porn or that somebody doesn’t do something unauthorized with company computers. I’m unimpressed and it’s frankly a dystopian twist of what IT actually should be; which is best serving a company’s technical needs collaboratively - not roleplaying as the NSA.
It effectively shouldn’t be possible for Bob to watch porn on company devices/internet. It shouldn’t be possible or desirable for somebody to skirt policy to run binaries (even on a whim) for software they feel that they require for maximum productivity. There should be reasonable, timely, and accessible procedures for employees to request necessary software to be deployed.
If I recall correctly in another part of the thread, a user discussed a group of employees (including themselves) needing WSL for job duties and it being blocked without notice. This is an example of sheer incompetence of the IT team - blocking necessary software and failing to maintain/establish timely and accessible procedures to contest a block as an employee who needs specific software to function in their job.
Required software should never be blocked - so who is at fault? Who caused the most damage to the company? The people attempting to work? Or the people who have no idea what they’re doing; making employees feel they need to completely disregard them to function in their duties - the people sabotaging operations?
You’re free to fantasize about the little guy as the only one getting disciplined in these scenarios. I’m sure most corporate environments do work like that, but it just protects incompetency - unless, again, the employee went out of their way to run the binary in an abnormal way or otherwise had less than ideal intentions.