They might be accepted as helpful in some situations, but many security professionals would weigh the privacy against added help and recommend against them in this context.<p>Many, hopefully most, security professionals would also disagree with requiring AV on all endpoints.<p>(Industry practices generally aren&#x27;t a good guideline, and many IT security professionals are incompetent and&#x2F;or powerless to do anything besides babysit security products that just create work and increase complexity. Witness the prevalence of large corporate &quot;intranets&quot; with centralised firewalls, and soft chewy insides...)