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As a software developer, I can relate so much! The amount of trash garbage that IT installs on my (company's) laptop, the unnatural things I need to do to access my cloud environments, the credentials expiring at an insane pace, — all of these contribute to quite a negative experience.

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The article is about Epic, a terrible medical journal software.

What you say differs between IT environments and clients. We usually just deploy EDR/MDR like S1 or Defender (Defender that comes with Windows) and deploy settings, so you cannot have a crazy long uptime and force Windows updates, yes you need those.

According to some standard body like NIST, you are now supposed to have a longer password or passphrase that never expires.

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