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Re: What server hardening are you doing these days?

from [Barrie Dempster] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: What server hardening are you doing these days?
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:13:54 +0000 
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 11:13 -0800, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS
Rocks [MVP] wrote:

sometimes one chooses to hack 
up the app and take the risk.  The alternative is local administrator
or 
power user rights on that desktop which has it's own risks.  


Very well said, in the former case however the admin controls the risk,
in the latter case it's the users realm. (The users realm is a scary
place!)

In my opinion admin controlled risks > user controlled risks and is why
I'd personally favour even a hacky attempt at controlling the app by the
admin.


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