Re: Deepfreeze - Why not?

[Allen Wood <awood () HILLCOLLEGE EDU>]

We use DeepFreeze in select labs, not all of them.

Reasons for not loading it on all machines-

1.      A reboot makes it much harder to complete any type of forensic investigation on that computer.

2.      Updates (Plugins, Virus Definitions, OS updates, etc.) are much harder to manage... same goes for any software 
deployed by GPO, SMS, etc.

Allen


From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Sarazen, 
Daniel
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 3:05 PM
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Subject: [SECURITY] Deepfreeze - Why not?

Hi All,

We have some folks who'd like to see Deepfreeze installed on all lab PCs, but the IT department is balking. What do 
people think is the best reason to not install deepfreeze? Is there one?

Thanks,

Dan