Yes, it is company property. No, I am not asking that MY PERSONAL
INFORMATION be locked down. The administrators should not have the right to
view any/all information, some of which is potentially confidential such as,
for example, Personel Records. No I am not a n00b sitting in a cubicle
passing wind every 30 seconds. I am genuiunely asking this question, for
the purposes of security of personal information. How can we allow
administration of a network/domain, but protect information from prying
eyes, be they administrators or not.

Thankyou.



"Galen" wrote in message
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Robin Tucker had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Hi,

I would like to be able to log access to my folders from the network.
That is, I want to know when an administrator has accessed my drive. I
have private/confidential information on my PC and do not want
administrators to be able to access it, unless I give explicit
permission. How can I achieve this?

Thanks,


Robin.

As has been mentioned by David Candy, ask them. If you have, as it seems,
administrators then the implication is that the PC doesn't belong to you.
Private/confidential information should not really be kept on property not
belonging to you and the company has a right (and perhaps and obligation)
to monitor the contents of their property. Given that they're the admins
and likely able to access your account at any time (and probably have
rules regarding third party software installations) your best bet would be
to accept that anything you put on the work computer belongs, by default,
to the company or at least gives them rights to access it with or without
your consent.

Your personal computing should probably be done at home -- if you want to
keep your job. More and more companies, for various reasons, are starting
to not only monitor internet access but files on their PCs. With the
increase in various regulations (Sarbox, HIPPA, etc) it's in your best
interest to really keep your personal, private, and confidential data on a
system that you are the only administrator of. Note that this is mostly a
U.S. thing though the EU and surely other countries have similar policies.

Galen
--

"You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his
trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will
come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all."

Sherlock Holmes