Controlling IT dept denying access to Cybersecurity team

I'm a Security Analyst in a team of less than 10 people, and I've found it strange that we barely have any access to systems in our domain. For instance, we are not administrators, and we can't download any software or remote to servers. Our engineers do not even have the level of access that Help Desk analysts have. Now, this is my first job, so I wrote it off as a normal thing that security struggles with; however, I'm …

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