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RE: Windows Vista Power Management & Local Security Policy
From: "Good Securitypractice" <goodsecuritypractice () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:16:06 -0400
People in this discussion have been focusing on the technical aspects rather than the people aspect. The current power management system is MUCH more secure because people do not have to be given an account on the machine for them to shut it down. This is helpful when an admin can not get to a machine that has to be gracefully shutdown because of an impending power outage or thunderstorms. This can be a home computer, a computer in a dorm room, a server in a hosting environment etc. This is also very helpful in a kiosk environment where no one at the place can be trusted with usernames and passwords to the computer. As an example the computer operators in our server room do not have a username or password on the servers but can gracefully bring them down by pressing the power button. Not having a username and password shared amongst multiple operators or giving multiple operators access to a server is not a good security practice either, especially on sensitive computers. Some people will say physical access is enough to compromise security but we have cameras that record any unauthorized physical tampering.
Current thread:
- RE: Windows Vista Power Management & Local Security Policy, (continued)
- RE: Windows Vista Power Management & Local Security Policy Jim Harrison (Jul 19)
- RE: Windows Vista Power Management & Local Security Policy Abe Getchell (Jul 19)
- RE: Windows Vista Power Management & Local Security Policy Thor (Hammer of God) (Jul 21)
- RE: Windows Vista Power Management & Local Security Policy Abe Getchell (Jul 21)
- RE: Windows Vista Power Management & Local Security Policy Jim Harrison (Jul 21)
- RE: Windows Vista Power Management & Local Security Policy Abe Getchell (Jul 21)
- RE: Windows Vista Power Management & Local Security Policy James C. Slora Jr. (Jul 22)
- RE: Windows Vista Power Management & Local Security Policy Jim Harrison (Jul 22)
- RE: Windows Vista Power Management & Local Security Policy Abe Getchell (Jul 23)
- RE: Windows Vista Power Management & Local Security Policy Abe Getchell (Jul 19)
- RE: Windows Vista Power Management & Local Security Policy Jim Harrison (Jul 19)