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Checklist: Restrict access to prevent insider hacks


Roberta Bragg
11.09.2004
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[IMAGE] Insiders are often to blame for more computer compromises than outsiders. That means your employees and fellow workers create more havoc for your network than all the malicious people on the Internet. Limit your losses by preventing users from accessing sensitive systems and logging on to machines other than those assigned to them.

WARNING: You can seriously hamper user ability to log on by setting the wrong user rights. Please do the following steps in a test environment.

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Allan A. writes: I have a couple of additions to your checklist:

1. Restrict the number of systems to minimize administration and the probability of configuration errors.

2. Train and educate all users to lock their PC when leaving it -- even when they are just leaving for two minutes. Administrators can setup PCs connected to a network to lock after a certain number of minutes. But between the time someone leaves a PC to the time the autolock is activated, another person can easily access files and folders on the network.

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