Workstation security question

From: jradtke@admin1.umaryland.edu
Date: 06/04/02 

Date: 4 Jun 2002 13:00:05 -0000
From: <jradtke@admin1.umaryland.edu>
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
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We have a LAN with a mix of Win2000 and WinNT4 (phasing out the NT4)
workstations.

The only local user account on the workstation is the admin account. The
local admin account has no rights on the domain. Users are authenticated
through their domain accounts.

We have a campus wide firewall.

Should we be concerned enough about someone hacking into the workstations
and then tapping into our servers to put software based firewalls at each
workstation.

I would like to thank all of you in advance.

Jason

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