[bugbuddy]

Unfortunately, the IT department people think they are literal GODs for knowing how to configure Domain Policies and lock down everything. They even refuse to help or even answer requests for help when there are false positives on our own software builds that we cannot unmark as false positives. These people are proactively antagonistic to productivity. Management could not careless…

[lynx23]

Nobody wants to be resonsible for giving allowing exceptions in security-matters. Its far easier to ignore the problems at hand, then to risk being wrong just once.

[thesuitonym]

They don't think they're gods, they just think you're an idiot. This is not to say that you are, or even that they believe YOU individually are an idiot, it's just that users are idiots.

There are also insurance, compliance, and other constraints that IT folks have that make them unwilling to turn off scanning for you.

[cj]

> they just think you're an idiot.

To be fair, the average employee doesn’t have much more than idiot-level knowledge when it comes to security.

The majority of employees would rather turn off automatic OS updates simply because it’s a hassle to restart your computer because god forbid they you loose those 250 chrome tabs waiting for you to never get around to revisiting!

[xxs]

they are allowed to do that for the folks that produce the goods of course, it just makes a lot harder to retain the said idiots.