Re: Holes in my security - advice needed
- From: "Phillip Windell" <philwindell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:56:59 -0500
"SteveP" <SteveP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The network is 2003 standard servers and one W2K server. All users are XP
Pro. All users are joined to the domain.
Except:
One user bought a laptop with Vista Home on it. It is used at home by
children and then brought into work and plugged into the network. It was
also given the printer drivers. It cannot be joined to the network and I
have no control over it. I do not know if it has up-to-date antivirus.
One Mac desktop that was just brought in one day and plugged in.
Company policy is XP Pro machines only and they must be joined to the domain.
I need information to present to management on why having computers just
plugged into the network is dangerous.
I don't know what to say. It would be like trying to explain what the color blue
looks like.
If they don't understand why it is bad,...then how did the company policy get
put in place that says, "Company policy is XP Pro machines only and they must be
joined to the domain"? That would be the whole point of that policy,...if they
aren't going to enforce that policy then get rid of it and let the LAN be a
free-for-all, because your Policies have no "teeth",..they have no authority.
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Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com
The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft, or
anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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