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Re: Desktop Administrator Question
From: Steven Alexander <alexander.s () MCCD EDU>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:33:40 +0000
We are currently moving away from giving local admin rights to all users. Everyone, including system/network administrators should be operating with basic user privileges most of the time. Client-side exploits are a major attack vector and many or most of them depend on users having admin privileges. Regards, Steven Alexander Jr. Online Education Systems Manager Merced College 3600 M Street Merced, CA 95348-2898 (209) 384-6191 alexander.s () mccd edu From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Johnson, Jeff Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:13 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Desktop Administrator Question Hello Everyone, DePaul is currently evaluating how we have access rights and roles setup on desktop/laptop computers at the institution. We currently give all employees administrator rights to their desktop computer. Our understanding is that most institutes of higher education are offering employees of the institution administrator rights on their desktops, but we would like to validate this to satisfy some questions from some others (particularly internal audit folks). As such, we were interested in gathering some more concrete data on this and have created a very short and simple (4 question) survey to capture this information. We would very much appreciate your participation if you are able, and we will share the results for everyone via email (cleansing any personal information you choose to enter prior to doing so of course). If you would rather pass this on to colleagues involved in desktop administration and support, that would also be most appreciated. Here is a link to the survey: http://depaul.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6lNkqctZNQ5BZaI Thank you so much for your help! Regards, Jeff Johnson Infrastructure Support Manager, Information Systems, DePaul University This email has been scanned by a Spam/Virus Firewall. If your email has been classified as Spam please contact the HelpDesk at (209) 384-6180.
Current thread:
- Desktop Administrator Question Johnson, Jeff (Jan 31)
- Re: Desktop Administrator Question Steven Alexander (Jan 31)
- Re: Desktop Administrator Question Joel Rosenblatt (Jan 31)
- Re: Desktop Administrator Question Lazarus, Carolann (Feb 01)
- Re: Desktop Administrator Question Morrow Long (Feb 01)
- Re: Desktop Administrator Question Rich Graves (Feb 01)
- Re: Desktop Administrator Question Steven Alexander (Feb 01)
- Re: Desktop Administrator Question Kevin Shalla (Feb 02)
- Re: Desktop Administrator Question Johnson, Jeff (Feb 03)
- Re: Desktop Administrator Question Drews, Adam (Feb 02)
- Re: Desktop Administrator Question Johnson, Jeff (Feb 03)
- Re: Desktop Administrator Question Johnson, Jeff (Feb 17)
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