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To belay paranoia, this is not always the case.

I manage a company's google workspace, and we don't have managed browsers or devices, and no one has ever asked to have that capability.




Until the first case when an employee sends death threats from your company laptop and you need to provide the data to the police to help in investigation.

Or the first case when some shared credentials get compromised probably from an infected computer and now you need to find which of the 80 laptops is the infected one.

Or the first time employee converts his laptop into a wifi access point for the office girl upstairs and unknowingly lets her inside your companies private network.

Of course, there are workarounds and better practices for every example. You can solve it without admin access to laptops and network request logging. But company property is not anonymous either with or without full admin access - so why jump trough the hoops to not have it?


I am going to guess you don't have any security or compliance folks.




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