Maybe the militant single domain focus posture is not driven only by personal values but has something to do with how organization pressures and rewards people? Chastising people for doing things out of the scope of their responsibility is a thing I hear.
That's me most of the time. I used to describe my position as troublemaker. Of course I also used to do things to compensate that perception.
Anyway, whatever the reason, for the company it's interesting to have both the right people and the right policies.
I'm not sure what made that people not even wanting to take a look at firewall permissions. It was obvious that the ports were closed. Actually I learned that my workstation had a public IP address, totally useless anyway because all ports were closed from the outside.
