Thu, Feb 10 2005 19:56
bradley
The Case of the Stolen ....well anything!
This month's Security Management column by Steve Riley is about physical security and boy, don't I know about this one from a personal level due to the recent burglary at the office.
The Case of the Stolen Laptop: Mitigating the Threats of Equipment Theft -- TechNet Column - Security Management - February 2005:
Personally I use pgpdrive on my laptop but the concept is the same....protect the data that is most “movable“.
Also a very public thank you to Dr. Jesper Johansson... who taught me that having the local admin password match the domain controller admin password was very dumb and so when I set up my new network I purposely mismatched admin passwords. When the "snatch and grab" of a workstation occurred at my office a few weeks back, I knew that someone didn't have access to the domain admins password.
For us beancounters, and for your clients, identifiy your most critical data that you have a regulatory requirement to protect and put the most effort in protecting that. When I'm traveling and I've got a client's Quickbooks data, there's too much crtical data in there and thus I drop it inside the pgpdrive.
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