My client is in the financial industry and have to use their equipment as a remote contractor.
The win10 laptop is locked down tight, including removable drives disabled, DNS forced through corporate servers, SSH blocked outside network, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if all activity was somehow centrally logged for compliance too.
I had to request permission to whitelist my VPN account to access Github.com. Even with VPN disabled the laptop still uses corporate DNS.
The security policy is designed to prevent theft.
Of course there _are_ ways to circumvent these protections but you'd be in a world of legal trouble if caught.
Working in the financial industry as well, not as a contractor but within the organisation itself.
To add to the above (everything is quite the same in my case): pasting medium chunks of data to external websites is restricted on the system level, same for uploading documents/images; emails to non-corporate addresses are scanned.
The win10 laptop is locked down tight, including removable drives disabled, DNS forced through corporate servers, SSH blocked outside network, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if all activity was somehow centrally logged for compliance too.
I had to request permission to whitelist my VPN account to access Github.com. Even with VPN disabled the laptop still uses corporate DNS.
The security policy is designed to prevent theft.
Of course there _are_ ways to circumvent these protections but you'd be in a world of legal trouble if caught.