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Re: Desktop Administrator Question
From: "Johnson, Jeff" <JJOHNS86 () DEPAUL EDU>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:16:09 +0000
So I wanted to follow up on this request we'd made a few weeks ago. Thanks so much to everyone who provided some feedback on this. As many have pointed out, the survey we had put up was very simple, and didn't give the responder much leeway on the question of whether they give administrator access, and since there are many different variants here (e.g. "yes, we give admin access but not to certain users", etc.), I got quite a few follow ups from folks with those caveats. I have tried my best to add them into the second worksheet of the attached Excel sheet. I also did not add personal contact info for those responders who were so generous to offer follow-ups, since I wasn't sure if people wanted to share that information publicly. Therefore, if you want to get additional details from the contributors, please follow up and request it to the list-serv directly. So without further ado, attached is a spreadsheet breaking down the responses in Excel 2010 format. If people want this in another format, please reply and I will see what I can do. Thanks again everyone! Jeff From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Johnson, Jeff Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 5:13 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
Attachment:
DesktopAdminSurveyv3_January2012.xlsx
Description: DesktopAdminSurveyv3_January2012.xlsx
Current thread:
- Re: Desktop Administrator Question, (continued)
- 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)
- Re: Desktop Administrator Question Gramke, Jim (Feb 01)
- Re: Desktop Administrator Question Steve Kuchta (Feb 01)