Re: Locally Administered servers

["Thomas R. Davis" <tdavis () IU EDU>]

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On Mar 13, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Leo Tran wrote:

> Does your University allow local departments to administer their
> own servers?  Do you require them to sign any kind of release
> form?  Do you have any specific security policy for them?

Hi Leo,

I think you'll find that this varies based on the institution's
size.  Most larger institutions will have many departments
administering their own servers, whereas some of the smaller
institutions will have more central control.

Indiana University is an eight campus system.  On our two largest
campuses (Bloomington and Indianapolis), it is standard practice for
departments to administer their own servers with the central IT
departments running enterprise wide services such as email, DNS,
administrative systems, etc..  No release forms are required.  On our
other smaller campuses, IT is managed by the central IT departments.
All administrators are subject to our University wide IT policies:
http://www.itpo.iu.edu/

Hope this helps,

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Tom Davis, IT Security Officer, CISSP, CISM, GCIA
Office of the VP for Information Technology, Indiana University
PGP key or S/MIME certificate: https://itso.iu.edu/Tom_Davis


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