My employer got hit by ransomeware attack, and to stay insurable, our IT department clamped down all computers to the point of harming productivity and morale.

My employer got hit by ransomeware attack, and to stay insurable, our IT department clamped down all computers to the point of harming productivity and morale. Instead of adopting trust no one security models, things are limited to the point that it’s tempting to use personal devices to complete work. Developers cannot have local admin privileges, making many task much more cumbersome. Machines run multiple AV products including Fireeye’s xAgent, Windows Defender, and BitDefender. They use Netspoke to inspect all traffic including HTTPS traffic. If that wasn’t enough, Thycotic is used to selectively allow processes to launch and is single threaded. Thycotic is extremely slow, especially for git operations and tools that tend to spawn multiple processes.