Dell sells to Enterprise A LOT. This sounds like a tool intended for behind-corporate-firewall deployment that got promoted to the public.
Besides, an end user will never have enough permission to download and install a driver - because if they did they’d be in a position to defeat the DLP, VPN posturing, shitty antivirus and disk encryption tools that have to be installed to satisfy the four nearly identical checklists produced by at least as many independent IT security organizations who most likely hired the same auditor multiple times.
Small to mid sized businesses would probably be all over this though.
It is "an autonomous subsystem ((...)) incorporated in virtually all of Intel's processor chipsets since 2008. ((One)) can use it to turn the computer on and off, and they can login remotely into the computer regardless of whether or not an operating system is installed. ((It)) always runs as long as the motherboard is receiving power, even when the computer is turned off."
According to the EFF it "has full access to memory (without the parent CPU having any knowledge); has full access to the TCP/IP stack and can send and receive network packets independently of the operating system, thus bypassing its firewall".
You might even say that quality and security are orthogonal, at least in this particular case. That might not even be wrong.