passworded screen savers with timeouts, why?

[Michael Fox <Mfox () GEORGIASOUTHERN EDU>]

 We are in the implementation stage of password and workstation
policies. My questions, which comes from a number of users, is why a
screen saver with a timeout period that requires entering a password
when unlocking the screen saver?

I have my answers (not a lot) for this but I would like to see what
others would have to say about this. It is part of a DID from my
perspective, but  not the only piece for the workstation.

Any opinions about this one way or another would be appreciated
(hopefully most would be for locking the workstation).

Oh, by the way we are doing this with Novell Zenworks.

Thanks in advance,

Mike

Mike Fox
Georgia Southern University
Information Technology Services
Office of Information Security
mfox () georgiasouthern edu
(912)871-1592

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