I’ve been issued a work laptop with Windows 11, running the Sophos Endpoint Agent, which monitors all web traffic and processes running on the PC and blocks malicious stuff.
If I install a Linux VM on it and access the web from inside it, will the Endpoint Agent see what I’m doing and be able to block access the same way as it does on the host?
I guess what I’m asking is, how does accessing a website from inside a VM work, actually? Does all the traffic get routed through the host OS unencrypted?
The purpose isn’t to try to circumvent any security measures or go over the heads of the IT department, but rather to find out if I can make a case for using my favorite OS on this thing without compromising security.
I’ve faced this decision.
As long as the stuff I’m doing on the Linux VM is legitimate work, I find that no one cares.
Every so often someone asks questions about how the underlying concerns are being addressed - most critically backups.
As long as I have reasonable answers, or I express willingness to collaborate on solutions, it tends to work out.
That said, I’m a manager of software development, so I receive a lot of leeway to tell people what tools I need.