This has been my experience.

I used to run a C++ shop, writing heavy-duty image processing pipeline software.

It did a lot, and it needed to do it in realtime, so we were constantly busting our asses to profile and optimize the software.

Our IT department insisted that we install 'orrible, 'orrible Java-based sneakware onto all of our machines, including the ones we were profiling.

We ended up having "rogue" machines, that would have gotten us in trouble, if IT found out (and I learned that senior management will always side with IT, regardless of whether or not that makes sense. It resulted in the IT department acting like that little sneak that sticks his tongue out at you, while hiding behind Sister Mary Elephant's habit).

But, to give them credit, they did have a tough job, and the risks were very real. Many baddies would have been thrilled to get their claws on our software.

Air-gapped systems: keeping you safe from IT (and incidentally hackers on government payrolls)

Had a problem with a "slow network" from a mac to a nas drive, was capping about 800mbit a second, despite having a 10g link.

As I looked through I killed sophos. Suddenly speeds shot up above 7gbit. A few seconds later they dropped back down, sophos has retured.

A "while (true) pkill sophos" later and the malware was sedated.

Having proved it wasn't a network problem I left it with the engineer to determine the best long term solution.

Mosyle is doing their best to make Macs unusable.

Oh?

We were in need of an MDM to help staff (non-techs) with their Mac books. I haven't noticed any issues, nor have two of my staff who are trialling it. What's been your main gripe?

I'm a Dev but also manage the It team of one sys admin and haven't noticed any performance hits. Yet anyway, but it's only been two weeks.

Installing software is painful- some of this is perhaps related to how the IT group has restricted so much for us, can't even change my screen saver, and weirdness like bizarre pop ups asking for your password from time to time. It just doesn't belong on a developer machine.

Fair enough.

I haven't had the same experience but that's mostly because I'm a Dev, implementing it for other developers.

It sounds less like a product problem vs. configuration problem caused by your IT teams.

Yeah, idk what they do, but in my company some new MacBook Pros with M3 are taking 15 minutes to login after typing the user password.