Re: Where should security exist?
From: Dan Overes (dan.overes@spam.shaw.ca)
Date: 07/25/02
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From: "Dan Overes" <dan.overes@spam.shaw.ca> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:32:58 -0600
In our environment (a University), professors consider any attempt at
locking down their workstation as a violation of "academic freedom". So,
all of our users are admins of their local machines so they can install
whatever they want which is a big security problem.
We try to work around it by locking accounts down to certain machines and
keeping them patched as much as possible. Worst case scenario is a user
screws up their machine, we re-image it and they start over from scratch.
"Shawn" <Shawn@noemail.com> wrote in message
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> Greetingz,
> I was wondering, can someone tell me, should you or
> should you not secure workstations in a enterprise?
>
> I was reading an article the other day, and it said that,
> hardening security on workstations in an "enterprise", is
> not a good thing to do. It is best practice to secure the
> servers as well as all the incoming and outgoing lines to
> or from your network to outside.
>
> Is this statement true? Why or why not..
>
> Cheers
>
> Shawn
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