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The main priority of an IT department is security.

The most secure system is one that isn't being used.

Therefore, the main priority of an IT department is to make the systems as difficult or unpleasant to use as possible.

The same goes for the guy in the purchasing department who gets rewarded for his cost saving measures when he goes for Acer's cheapest laptop with a Pentium and 8GB RAM rather than something with a mid range CPU and 16GB of RAM.

> they do not get penalized if they make your machine impossible to use.

An "impossible to use" machine won't have any incidents reported against it

Exactly.

Well designed security programs shouldn't slow down your PC. This is a failure on the infosec department. Sysmon/Windows logging can do most of the hardwork with very few resources.