In only one of your examples is the IT department involved. It that case, they could have accomplished the same as Hamachi by temporarily opening some ports in the firewall and forwarding them to her work computer. Or they could have e-mailed her the files she needed.
In all your other examples, they represent well-meaning individuals circumventing company security.
This depends on your security policy.
As an administrator, I'd be worried about showing employees how to by-pass security because it's convenient to do so. Who's to control their access after that?
I think this is just blowing hot air. Is ftp circumventing security? The administrator's can put rules and regulations on this type of functionality. All your doing is providing them with a graphical-way to inteface another computer and transfer files, all in 1 to 2 steps. Admins can block ports, or open ports.
To many IT departments get stuck in paradaigm paralysis, where everything has to be one way. If it's not that one way, then red flags everywhere. For the most part this is for good reason, but I fail to see where this is bypassing security. The admin's are the ones who control the ports. Who said the end user has the ability to configure port forwarding orthe ability to create ssh tunnels? I didn't.
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