If the company cannot or will not provide you with top-cover and approved tools to accomplish changes, your efforts will likely lead to worse results, not better.īack to the technical merits of the question: how? Ask your security people. You may appreciate a piece of advice which I came up with the hard way - 'it is fatal to care more than the company does.' But the implications of cowboying around with security settings can still compromise your environment, and of course your own position. Taking the most positive case, let us assume that you are working as directed, and are struggling to get something done which the company agrees needs to be done. None of this means malicious - I also presume that you are acting in good faith. If these things cannot be had, then I respectfully submit that you are engaged in a certainly dangerous (to security and to your career) and potentially rogue activity. If not, you should get written permission from your supervisor to go about disabling things, and your supervisor in turn should have written permission from security. You should either be working from a service request or similar, which if assigned to you should cover your butt.

If you are in security, this should be that much simpler. You should talk to your security people and to your own supervisor. You are obviously working in Windows, so I will assume an Active-Directory managed infrastructure, and I will suppose that your McAfee workstation clients are centrally managed. I will address the administrative, not technical aspect of this question, because you have specified an Enterprise setting, and you do not seem to be an Enterprise Admin.

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