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.
Keep your work and personal software separated. If you don’t need it to do your job, don’t install it on your work machine. If you don’t need to access a site for work, don’t access it on your work machine.
At the end of the day, it’s not your computer and you shouldn’t treat it like it is.