Re: Locking Computer Policy

["Andregg, Bryan Courtney" <bryan.andregg () UNC EDU>]

Same here. We pushed this out as group policy five years ago. We had less trouble in classrooms than with faculty who 
told us the computer locked on them after “just minutes” of inactivity or while they were “reading a long paper” 
(somehow without ever moving their mouse or touching their keyboard). Now, we hear nothing and everyone accepts the 
status quo.

Bryan

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Bryan C. Andregg
IT Security & Systems Manager
Instructional & Information Systems
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> on behalf of Mandi Witkovsky 
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Date: Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 8:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Locking Computer Policy

We have a group policy applied to all workstations that the PC locks after 15 minutes of inactivity.  This sometimes 
causes issues in classrooms, but nothing so critical that we have looked into some sort of exception process.  When we 
first implemented it (10+ years ago) it rubbed people the wrong way but more or less everyone is used to it now.

mandi

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> On Behalf Of Ronald Loneker
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Subject: [SECURITY] Locking Computer Policy

Hi Everyone -

We looking to set up a group policy to push out to some of our end users to automatically lock a computer after a 
certain period of inactivity - especially in departments that have elevated privileges or access to sensitive data.

We are noticing some people not following procedure on this, and we want to take action.

What best practices are you using at your institution in terms of the amount of time before a computer locks 
automatically during inactivity?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts on this.

Ron Loneker, Jr.
Director, IT Special Projects
College of Saint Elizabeth
Mahoney Library
2 Convent Road
Morristown, NJ  07960

Phone:  973-290-4229<tel:973-290-4229>

e-mail:  rloneker () cse edu<mailto:rloneker () cse edu>


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