In this day and age this is like sending out a memo saying people can only use Bic pens in the office and anyone bringing a Parker in will be fired.
Well, no, for a few reasons.
Firstly, bringing in a different pen doesn't cause someone in IT to spend half a day finding you a Bic when your fancy Parker runs out of ink. However, since IT are usually responsible for keeping everyone's systems running properly, if you install unsupported software and something breaks, you probably will be wasting some unfortunate IT guy's time cleaning up your mess.
Secondly, it doesn't cost $100,000 of downtime while everyone in the department has their pens collected and destroyed and new pens issued just because your ink spilled. On the other hand, if you install software that actively circumvents the usual security measures (like Chrome, for example) and wind up with malware as a result, it's entirely possible that your machine and any other machines close enough to it to be infected will need to be nuked and reinstalled from scratch.
Finally, it doesn't cost millions in fines for breaches of regulatory compliance and/or put the executives responsible for your organisation personally on the hook if you bring in the wrong kind of pen. If you install something unsupported and wind up tripping someone's data leakage protection in an organisation that deals with things like healthcare, financial records, or military/law enforcement/security matters, an administrative nightmare the likes of which you have probably never seen is likely to descend on you and everyone around you.
And if you were half as computer literate as you seem to think you are, that would all have been blindingly obvious to you. Since it apparently wasn't, you might like to consider that you are exactly the reason that the IT departments responsible for keeping organisations' systems running tend to have these "draconian" rules.
Well, no, for a few reasons.
Firstly, bringing in a different pen doesn't cause someone in IT to spend half a day finding you a Bic when your fancy Parker runs out of ink. However, since IT are usually responsible for keeping everyone's systems running properly, if you install unsupported software and something breaks, you probably will be wasting some unfortunate IT guy's time cleaning up your mess.
Secondly, it doesn't cost $100,000 of downtime while everyone in the department has their pens collected and destroyed and new pens issued just because your ink spilled. On the other hand, if you install software that actively circumvents the usual security measures (like Chrome, for example) and wind up with malware as a result, it's entirely possible that your machine and any other machines close enough to it to be infected will need to be nuked and reinstalled from scratch.
Finally, it doesn't cost millions in fines for breaches of regulatory compliance and/or put the executives responsible for your organisation personally on the hook if you bring in the wrong kind of pen. If you install something unsupported and wind up tripping someone's data leakage protection in an organisation that deals with things like healthcare, financial records, or military/law enforcement/security matters, an administrative nightmare the likes of which you have probably never seen is likely to descend on you and everyone around you.
And if you were half as computer literate as you seem to think you are, that would all have been blindingly obvious to you. Since it apparently wasn't, you might like to consider that you are exactly the reason that the IT departments responsible for keeping organisations' systems running tend to have these "draconian" rules.