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msmemory_archive ([personal profile] msmemory_archive) wrote2009-04-08 02:29 pm

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If you're going to implement a strong, mandatory, inconvenient policy, it would sure be a good idea to issue a memo, or an all-staff email, or post it on the intranet.

Having to have our IS guy visit each person in the whole site to explain that their computer was locked while they were in the restroom or at lunch, and it will lock itself after 15 minutes of inactivity henceforth, just stinks, for us and for the hapless IS guy. (It also lends itself to people choosing the shortest, weakest passwords they can get away with, if they have to log in several times a day.)
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[personal profile] cellio 2009-04-08 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Our company has this policy, and you can't override the settings. My manager pointed out that they had just made his computer less secure; he had had it set at 5 minutes. Unfortunately, they didn't care. :-(