It appears that the ability to not use a security lock as well as the pattern lock feature have both been disabled by the remote phone administrator.
In the Device Administrators, of course, it is not possible to add additional administrators.
Why are these features disabled?
Is it possible to add my "user" as a Device administrator?
This all sounds kind of familiar... Verizon disabling useful phone OS features. Anyone else experiencing this? Other forums do not appear to indicate any others are - maybe I'm the only one that wants to turn the Pin security feature off.