Suggestions on best practices for idle timeouts

[Emily Harris <emharris () VASSAR EDU>]

We are in very lively discussions about best practices for idle machine
timeouts.  Most of the discussion is around timeouts for faculty machines,
as they could set up a computer with a video or movie and not touch the
machine again for 2 hours.  We are specifically talking about timeouts for
Single Sign On applications.  Has anyone been through these discussions and
come up with some acceptable standards?

Thanks!

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Emily Harris
Interim Information Security Officer, CIS
Vassar College
845-437-7221