Most sane organizations are going to turn off ping Why? That never made sense in my world. Now, I'm not a network ops guy, but .. why would you ever do that?

Most sane organizations are going to turn off ping Why? That never made sense in my world. Now, I'm not a network ops guy, but .. why would you ever do that? And that ignores related moves (like blocking all of icmp, while we're at it).