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XP Laptop Security
Environment: 100% Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 Active
Directory. All users have Standard limited User Accounts. NO we do not use windows Vista, YES i WISH we did, but it will take at least another year of testing for it to get approved for onsite use. What are you guys doing for the user that needs to take his laptop on the road and install devices (projectors, printers, etc) and config network settings,etc - yet still limit account access when domain connected?? I have been tasked with coming up with a solution for devices that can be used both offsite and onsite. This is a first for us. Currently users with laptops are not allowed to connect them to our corporate network (they use citrix from public locations and corporate desktops when here at work). We are getting requests from upper management to allow them to connect their laptops to a docking station here at work and relinquish the desktop. This now presents the problem: How do we allow the user to securely connect to our domain with a limited/restricted user account, yet still allow them to perform necessary tasks while on the road?? Since this is a new scenario for us we are looking for ANY input you guys can offer on what you are doing in similar situations. I appreciate ANY INPUT you guys can offer. Thanks! |
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XP Laptop Security
"Sbrown95" wrote in message ... Environment: 100% Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. All users have Standard limited User Accounts. NO we do not use windows Vista, YES i WISH we did, but it will take at least another year of testing for it to get approved for onsite use. What are you guys doing for the user that needs to take his laptop on the road and install devices (projectors, printers, etc) and config network settings,etc - yet still limit account access when domain connected?? I have been tasked with coming up with a solution for devices that can be used both offsite and onsite. This is a first for us. Currently users with laptops are not allowed to connect them to our corporate network (they use citrix from public locations and corporate desktops when here at work). We are getting requests from upper management to allow them to connect their laptops to a docking station here at work and relinquish the desktop. This now presents the problem: How do we allow the user to securely connect to our domain with a limited/restricted user account, yet still allow them to perform necessary tasks while on the road?? Since this is a new scenario for us we are looking for ANY input you guys can offer on what you are doing in similar situations. I appreciate ANY INPUT you guys can offer. Thanks! What you want to do sounds like the domain of a third party access control tool. Some of these can be configured on a device by device basis as to what the user can connect and, in the case of read write media, limit acces to reading only. Some more advanced tools can also log every file transfered if desired. The system we use is a system called Sanctuary by SecureWave. It looks like they have been taken over but you could start he http://www.lumension.com/landing.spring?contentId=139652&rpLeadSourceId=622 &origin=securewave I doubt that this is the only solution. |
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