No... this is not correct per IT security policy:

An employee cannot bypass security using a proxy at a major bank as an employee to bypass access controls set up by the bank without being in violation of internal bank policies.

mohtashims must follow his bank's IT security policies and not "turn on proxies" or do anything to bypass security without working with his supervisor and his IT security team to insure he has his organizations permission to do so.

When "you" are a system admin on a platform, you must follow company policy. If mohtashims does not have network access; he also may not have permission to install outside software.

I have worked as a system admin and also in IT security at a number of banks and other organizations with a similar risk management profile. Most of these organizations do not permit employees to go to the web, download and install tools from the Internet. This is why they block developers and system admins from access.

We are not here at unix.com to advise anyone to break their company IT security policies, directly or indirectly. We are here to advise them NOT to break their company rules and policies.

mohtashims should go to his IT security staff and his supervisor and find a way under banking IT security policies to install the software he wishes to install at his work.