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My corporate anti-virus doesn't let me add scanning exclusions (i.imgflip.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (4 children)

So what should a decent IT department do to give developers the access they need to do their job while maintaining a decent level of security?

Give them a Linux machine?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

This doesn't remove security and compliance requirements for the business though. For our Linux endpoints we still deploy an AV on them and limit the user's ability to add exclusions.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You ever worked in an average corporate job? You're missing out on so much

The IT guys barely know Windows, they've most likely never even heard of Ubuntu, could you imagine such a thing :|

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Huh, weird. The IT guys I work with don't just know Windows, when I joked about wanting a Linux instead they pointed out that we have software devs using Linux too. I'd need some reason to request it, but if I know the right people (and more particularly, what their favourite snacks are), I could probably get it approved.

(Doesn't actually help me, given I'm stuck using proprietary tools that I couldn't get to run with wine, but at least the option is there. And that's a big corp.)

[+] [email protected] -11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A machine that takes extra time and skills to manage?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As someone who does exactly that right now. Yes.

You need a Linux machine in a separate network with separate firewall rules and the developer has to devote a bit of their time to managing that machine.
It can even be centrally managed, if you have the capacity.

But why would you want that? To secure your shit while allowing the devs to to what they like to their equipment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In an ideal world I agree with you, but when resources are limited, running a separate environment is not allways realistic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

^ this

As an example of scale, my company has an entire IT team of a handful of people for managing such an environment for a thousand or so devs and engineers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

My past role was a combined role of these:

Helpdesk technician
VIP technician
Linux system administrator

We didn't effectively administrate the Linux environment, I was the only linux admin at the company, and I wasn't even doing it full time.