RE: Controlling Admin Access

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To: 'Michael Cox' <mscox42@yahoo.com>, "'focus-ms@securityfocus.com'" <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:36:05 -0800

I apologize if someone has already mentioned this but there is a pretty good
solution for this. PGP is an encryption product and is supported in both the
commercial and open source worlds. There is a commercial version of this
that is designed for the Enterprise that I have used and implented fairly
successfully. The enterprise version at http://www.pgp.com will provide you
with integrated Outlook support providing the ability to sign and encrypt
e-mail, the ability to sign and encrypt files or folders, the ability to
create a mountable encrypted drive.

The biggest issue with encryption was brought up by an earlier poster. What
happens when the person disappears and noone knows his/her password? This is
answered by creating a corporate ADK key. If configured correctly,
everything the user encrypts will also be encrypted by this key and can thus
be recovered in an emergency. This key can and should be split between
multiple people thus requiring multiple people for decryption outside the
users knowledge.

PGP is also widely supported and accepted through out the world.
I hope this helps...

Thanks,
   Kevin Black
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Cox [mailto:mscox42@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 11:56 AM
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: Controlling Admin Access

I'd like to solicit the group's input on the
following.

Domain administrators, by definition, are going to
have complete access to member computers.

Is anyone doing anything to mitigate the potential
risks involved with access to, say, an executive's
computer which could have very sensitive data on it
(mergers and acquisitions, for example)?

One obvious answer is encryption, but I'm curious what
is available in the Windows world as I'm not as
familiar with that.

Even if something like object level auditing was
enabled and the logs sent to a remote host, couldn't
the admin, as a first step, disable this logging?

Please answer both 1) what is possible, and 2) what is
your organization or other organizations you know of
doing about this (if anything).

Many thanks in advance!

Michael

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