Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
That company must have had a different idea of "whitelisting". The machines we use, if it's not on the whitelist, you're straight-up unable to install it. You try to do so and window pops up telling you to pound sand (request its installation and provide adequate justification). Then again, nobody in our org has 100% unfettered access to their company-owned systems.
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That company must have had a different idea of "whitelisting". The machines we use, if it's not on the whitelist, you're straight-up unable to install it. You try to do so and window pops up telling you to pound sand (request its installation and provide adequate justification). Then again, nobody in our org has 100% unfettered access to their company-owned systems.