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Re: Restricting PC Admin Rights
From: "Seymour, Patrick" <Patrick.Seymour () SINCLAIR EDU>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:42:33 +0000
Here is the article that Eric and Bryan did for EDUCAUSE Review about six months ago. They include some stats from a survey of the IT Support Services list. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/2/reclaiming-the-keys-to-the-kingdom-examining-end-user-administrator-rights-in-higher-education Full Disclosure: I am the Patrick Seymour mentioned in the article, so I'm obviously biased toward the way we did things at Sinclair. The short version is that no one has administrator rights by default, but employees can elevate themselves temporarily to do admin things. --ps Patrick S. Seymour | Manager, Application Delivery Sinclair Community College | 444 West Third Street | Room 13-023Q | Dayton, OH 45402 937.512.2118 | patrick.seymour () sinclair edu<mailto:patrick.seymour () sinclair edu> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv <SECURITY () listserv educause edu> On Behalf Of Pardonek, Jim Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 11:06 AM To: SECURITY () listserv educause edu Subject: [SECURITY] Restricting PC Admin Rights Not sure if there is somewhere else I can get this info, I'm sure it's been asked before, but I am checking to see how many of your institutions restrict admin rights. We are putting a proposal together to leadership to do exactly that as we have had a number of folks fall for scams that involve the installation of software on their PCs. Thanks, James Pardonek, MS, CISSP, CEH, GSNA Information Security Officer Loyola University Chicago 1032 W. Sheridan Road | Chicago, IL 60660 *: (773) 508-6086 Loyola University Chicago will never ask you for your username or password. For the lastest information security news at Loyola, please follow us online, Twitter: @LUCUISO Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lucuiso/ Our Blog http://blogs.luc.edu/uiso/
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