As someone who is currently having to take away people’s local admin rights along with a ton of other privileges: it’s not like we do this for fun, we have compliance goals to reach that were agreed to by higher ups outside of the IT department in exchange for public funding (we’re a public institution).
You only need to experience what some people manage to do to their machines with and without admin access to favour a return to the abacus for the general workforce.
And software developers are simultaneously the best and absolute worst users.
Our record was less than a workday for a developer to get infected with malware after their machine just got re-imaged. After that everyone lost admin access by default unless they had an exception since he was not the first that month.
As someone who is currently having to take away people’s local admin rights along with a ton of other privileges: it’s not like we do this for fun, we have compliance goals to reach that were agreed to by higher ups outside of the IT department in exchange for public funding (we’re a public institution).
“I was just following orders.” 🙄
Whatever that is, it’s not loading for me.
You only need to experience what some people manage to do to their machines with and without admin access to favour a return to the abacus for the general workforce.
And software developers are simultaneously the best and absolute worst users.
Our record was less than a workday for a developer to get infected with malware after their machine just got re-imaged. After that everyone lost admin access by default unless they had an exception since he was not the first that month.