Re: passworded screen savers with timeouts, do you enforce?

[RL Vaughn <Randy_Vaughn () BAYLOR EDU>]

Ah, the voice of reason!

How are you doing?



Parker, Ron wrote:
> Some people may not care about "security" but they usually care about
> themselves. Perhaps you could try this approach:
>
> "Security incidents cost the college money, maybe a lot of money, in
> legal and other bills plus staff time, etc. Security incidents also
> reduce public confidence in the institution and may make students (or
> parents of those students) choose another college. For state or taxpayer
> funded institutions, this also makes it harder for legislators to want
> to increase funding or for taxpayers to want to endure yet another
> property tax increase. This reduces the amount of money available for
> employee salaries, raises, etc. This may have a direct impact on you and
> everyone else who works for the college. So, is it really so much
> trouble to type your password again?"
>
> --
> Ron Parker, Director of Information Technology, Brazosport College
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Fox [mailto:Mfox () GEORGIASOUTHERN EDU]
> > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 4:25 PM
> > To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> > Subject: [SECURITY] passworded screen savers with timeouts,
> > do you enforce?
> >
> > Last month I asked for reasons why we should utilize
> > passworded screen savers and I want to say thanks to everyone
> > that responded.
> >
> > Now I need to ask if you enforce the screen saver password
> > lockout and if you do how do you do it? Also how did you go
> > about getting it past the nay sayers that don't want to have
> > anything make them type their password in more than once a day.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
> >
> > Mike