Why ban Chrome and allow IE?

AfterEffect

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Our IT Dept only allow IE to be used as a browser, and Firefox when IE doesn't work (lol) but won't allow Chrome?! WHY?!?! :(

From what I've heard Chrome is much more secure... is this right? Is there anything to support it?

Their argument was that it evades the companies proxy... which it doesn't - it uses IE's settings! :S
 
Last time I looked Chrome was less secure and a pain to support as you cannot lock it down with policy’s. Chrome also allows you to change proxy’s to bypass internet filtering I thought.
 
Another problem is often that intranet sites and webapps are only tested and supported on IE. To ensure that things work as intended other browsers are locked down. Its a sensible policy most of the time.
 
I know that Chrome bypasses our companies Sophos web filtering. It's not really that unacceptable for an IT dept. to want as much standardised software as possible, makes there job easier.
 
Pottsey said:
Last time I looked Chrome was less secure and a pain to support as you cannot lock it down with policy’s. Chrome also allows you to change proxy’s to bypass internet filtering I thought.
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When you click 'Change Proxy Settings' it takes you to the inbuilt windows one that IE uses (which is blocked).
 
Companies use IE as has been mentioned above. Not necessarily because it's more secure as a browser, but because it's more secure for the company themselves. They can install a specific setup and lock it down with IE. Which is why most companies use IE....

kd
 
Chrome can't be managed by group policy so they have more flexibility is restricting what you can and can't do with IE

Although Google are working on embedding Chrome into old versions of IE - link

MW
 
For me, my company mandates the use of IE and certains apps like the mobile phone billing system will only work in IE as it mandates a certain version of Java. I still use Firefox although if there are problems then I'd have to check that the same problem exists in IE before I could log a call.
 
IE has content advisor, which whilst a half assed implementation of a necessary service is still of some use. Though proper content filtering should be done on your network equipment not all companies have this kind of hardware/software.
 
Chrome can be a DOS attack wrapped up in a browser sometimes.

The sheer quantity of concurrent connections might make your company's network or servers hosting internal tools explode.
 
Chrome is not actually any more secure than IE (well maybe a little) but not as secure as some people make out.

Without going on a rant about it, theres some fairly fundemental issues that have been around with other browsers since the 90s and in most cases finally sorted even in IE - last time I checked for instance it was still possible to exploit message box functionality to trick the user into downloading and running an exe even if they hit cancel or exit on the message box prompt. Which is a bit odd seeing as webkit hasn't had these issues in almost a decade so someone must have purposefully rewritten some code and badly.
 
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