I do not believe this is a trade-off, I believe this behavior from corporate IT is a primary
cause of the problem. I do agree that dealing with users is awful, but that doesn't justify solutions that only make things worse.
The flashing cmd.exe windows are not drivers from Windows Update - this could have been the case as drivers shipped with Windows Update is a total security nightmare running arbitrary code with administrative privileges upon hotplug - but in this context of managed devices, commonly from HP or Lenovo's corporate portfolio, it's usually additional products and changes pushed by group policy or random management software.
The often changing user prompts, looking like they were from some early 2000's hello world example, come from obscure and overlapping management software they remotely deploy which they change at will. You don't need a proprietary solution to remotely upgrade Google Chrome, just specify an enterprise policy with auto-update. You don't need a proprietary solution to prompt users and manage Windows Update, because you have... Windows Update.
The URL checker has no valid benefit, and makes it so people can never learn how to do it themselves. The browser performs the exact same checks with the exact same capabilities through its safe browsing stuff, and corporate IT often has network-level solutions too.
Corporate IT uses emails services that spoof domains and look suspicious, reversing all the phishing training they paid for.
Not to mention that Corporate IT might deploy network-wide solutions like Cisco Umbrella, which is a TLS Man-in-the-Middle attack where you install their root CA on all machines and let them control DNS to randomly redirect all traffic to their servers, effectively undermining the basis of all modern web security for the entire organization.
In general there's a fetish for buying products that has significant negative impact to security, user experience and possibility of training users, usually for the purpose of feigning progress and meeting some targets. Say, they had a ransomware incident, and now they're buying every ransomware product for a few years. Stuff with such buggy kernel code that it deadlocks and makes it impossible to create new processes until you hard reboot. I'm sure that's not a security problem!
The flashing cmd.exe windows are not drivers from Windows Update - this could have been the case as drivers shipped with Windows Update is a total security nightmare running arbitrary code with administrative privileges upon hotplug - but in this context of managed devices, commonly from HP or Lenovo's corporate portfolio, it's usually additional products and changes pushed by group policy or random management software.
The often changing user prompts, looking like they were from some early 2000's hello world example, come from obscure and overlapping management software they remotely deploy which they change at will. You don't need a proprietary solution to remotely upgrade Google Chrome, just specify an enterprise policy with auto-update. You don't need a proprietary solution to prompt users and manage Windows Update, because you have... Windows Update.
The URL checker has no valid benefit, and makes it so people can never learn how to do it themselves. The browser performs the exact same checks with the exact same capabilities through its safe browsing stuff, and corporate IT often has network-level solutions too.
Corporate IT uses emails services that spoof domains and look suspicious, reversing all the phishing training they paid for.
Not to mention that Corporate IT might deploy network-wide solutions like Cisco Umbrella, which is a TLS Man-in-the-Middle attack where you install their root CA on all machines and let them control DNS to randomly redirect all traffic to their servers, effectively undermining the basis of all modern web security for the entire organization.
In general there's a fetish for buying products that has significant negative impact to security, user experience and possibility of training users, usually for the purpose of feigning progress and meeting some targets. Say, they had a ransomware incident, and now they're buying every ransomware product for a few years. Stuff with such buggy kernel code that it deadlocks and makes it impossible to create new processes until you hard reboot. I'm sure that's not a security problem!