• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 days ago

      At large organizations you’re generally not allowed to download much of anything without it passing through IT security and management first. If it’s a no, it will probably stay a no.

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        2 days ago

        In your experience, what large organization restricts this? I’ve worked at a few SaaS companies and a FAANG that always gave us full install rights and browser choice. Granted we are on the software side, but I haven’t experienced this at all.

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        4 days ago

        I work for a non-profit and they are way more lenient about what we would like to install as long as the job gets done.

        • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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          Then you have bad opsec and security holes.

          This matters more for some industries than others. But this attitude lets a malicious employee install basically whatever they want in service of “the job” and you won’t even know you’re being breached until after it’s all over.

          • Flagstaff@programming.dev
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            3 days ago

            Well, we still have to get approval. But it just seems like they don’t mind as much. For example, I don’t know how many companies out there would be fine with installations of AutoHotkey and LibreOffice.