Agree 100%, if I were not able to download the applications and tools that make me productive, I would be looking for a new job at a less employee hostile work place.
It’s not hostile for an employer to want to protect themselves from employee mistakes and there are ways to do this without invading an employees privacy.
Or you do keep it up to date and suddenly it exposes your device to new vulnerabilities.
They just don't want you granting admin permissions to an email that you inadvertently clicked a strange links on, or some virus laden craking tools, you shouldn't be running.
It's understandable, but super annoying. Yeah, it'll probably question my long term view of the company.
Security and convenience are opposing forces. Security and reliability not so much.
My plea to all of us is get used to it. People's piece of mind (at the least) depends on us doing our job, and as this story is an example of us failing.
The age of programmers winging it should be long gone. We are professionals with responsibilities. Our jobs are not for our pleasure or satisfaction (even when they are fun and satisfying)
Mēh. Perhaps. But then Enterprise IT is not doing its job.
You should not bring your own tools to do this sort of job. We need to be professionals, not enthusiastic amateurs.
We work with "Enterprise IT" not against them.