| I have work at multiple start ups, many of which I have been with as a grown from 5 to 500 people. A few have gone public None of them do any sort of monitoring like this. At some of them, I have lead the security team. and others, I have been in charge of IT. Even at the ones where its not my job to handle that, I am supremely confident that we use no such software. Beyond the policy problems that it would cause (private keys and customer data could be viewed, requiring very broad access roles), it would also be next to impossible to implement from a technological standpoint. At every company that I've worked at in the last 12 years, engineers have had the ability to wipe their machine and reinstall. In most cases, they have the ability to swap out hard drives and other components, Bring them to Apple stores for repair, etc. No one that I know of users custom VPN software, or closed source Cisco stuff anymore. I think you are dramatically overestimating how common this sort of thing is. |