No I don’t have a company security department. I’m using a VPN i pay $4.99 a month for on the internet called private internet access. It doesn’t block anything, in fact I can set it so that chromedrive and katalon both bypass the VPN and it still doesn’t work, it’s not my VPN, it’s Katalon. I also learned enough about Katalon to make it load the chromedriver with a batch file so I could put a command line in it to allow all connections rather than just the local IP, I thought that may be the problem, but it’s not.
I think it’s because the private internet access adds another network adapter in windows, and that’s where the internet is served from. I think Katalon is bound to the primary network adapter, and there is no setting anywhere to change it. I don’t know, just a suspicion.
I do know that every single thing possible works with my VPN other than Katalon Studio
and I know that disconnecting from the VPN makes Katalon work.