Federal agencies miss deadline on secure configs

Federal agencies miss deadline on secure configs
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2008-02-04

Federal agencies failed to meet a Friday deadline to complete a move to standardized desktop configurations designed to reduce management costs and improve the overall computer security of federal systems.

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Federal agencies miss deadline on secure configs 2008-02-08
Anonymous (1 replies)

Don't you just love the assumption that of course these systems are running Windows? What does it mean to apply these settings to Linux? MacOS? Solaris? ...

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Re: Federal agencies miss deadline on secure configs 2008-02-21
Steve

The corollary to "not every desktop runs windows" is "not every windows system is a desktop". We'll see how they handle those systems running windows but not on the desktop (or even the datacenter) - how about those in the medical center?...

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