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What makes app whitelisting hard to use on an employee's corporate issue laptop? They shouldn't install anything that doesn't have a business purpose, and these

• R0b0t1 5y ago
  Nothing, in theory. There is a lot of clerical office work, or fixed flow work (like CNC machining) that doesn't need new programs. But there is also a fair amount of IT work that is hampered enough by whitelisting that IT is the one that does not want to do the whitelisting. Some of this can be blamed on Windows IT admins finding it normal to download random binaries and run them for diagnostic information or configuration management, but that is not an easy problem to solve.
• benhurmarcel 5y ago
  In practice it's quite common to run (and sometimes install) software that isn't whitelisted officially, even if it's outside strict IT rules. Otherwise have fun editing scripts with Notepad++ because IT never cared to allow VSCode, unzipping using Windows Explorer's feature because your request for 7zip was denied since the feature exists on paper, navigating the web without content blocker, being restricted to Python 3.1 because the responsible doesn't care about updates, not being able to run your own compiled scripts, being unable to run your keyboard macros, having to manage your passwords in a txt file, having only Excel to analyze data…