Re: PPC Secuiryt in the corporate environment

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I agree - ultimately we are only as secure as either our users
"honesty/intelligence", or the chains we put on our filling cabinets.

However, Microsoft is selling PPC's the "enterprise" as mobile workforce
devices. Should the fact that USB Keys or SD Cards are available stop them
from making top down administration possible?

I can think of many reasons why active directory integration would or could
be beneficial. Ultimately you are correct - there is no 100% secure
environment. But that doesn't mean I don't want to try.

BTW - I really do appreciate your perspective and comments. I may use them
in an article after gaining your permission.
--
Gavin
http://sbscanada.blogspot.com
http://pocketpccanada.blogspot.com/


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> "Gavin" <gavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Group policies are essential for managing corporate laptops. Pocket PC
>> devices need the same type of manageability from the top down. Imagine if
>> a user could take his laptop home and decide to disable password
>> protection because it's too much of a pain to have to log on all the
>> time. This would never be tolerated in a properly secured environment. So
>> why are Pocket PC's at the mercy of the user and not controlled by the
>> administrator?
>>
>>
>
>
> You want a personal device to share the password model of a laptop - And
> we all know how secure a laptop with a password is to a laptop's actual
> contents...
>
> I think you might be living in a false sense of protection. Don't be
> insulted, I see this all the time when the words "corporate" and
> "administrator" are used together.
>
> A PDA with a password is actually more secure than a laptop, minus storage
> cards. Now, about that storage card - password protection on a PDA will
> leave the storage card wide open for use in another device. Yet the
> coporate mentaility is, "Why can the user turn off the password on the
> PDA?". You miss the concept of "properly secured environment" here by a
> mile.
>
> Forgive me for being blunt, but don't be confined by the current paradigm
> of protection you are now employing - it WILL leave your security with
> holes, more than those that already exist. A false sense of security
> breeds complacency, which is actually worse than no hard security with an
> active guard up.
>
>
> .02, FWIW
>
>


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