ncompass live: setting up your public access computers
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Basic Public AccessDesktop Security
Michael Sauers & Diane WellsNebraska Library CommissionNCompass Live – 8 April 2009
It’s all about balance
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17149966@N00/514646045/
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General strategiesDon’t allow booting from anything but the
hard drive (this is set in the BIOS)
Set a BIOS password
The public should not run as admin (maybe unless…)
Patch Tuesday
ReduceTemptation
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Passwordshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/
31557656@N06/3303542092/
Passwords: from good to greatSize does matterCase sensitivityNumbersPunctuation & SymbolsSpaces are usually allowed
Changed often… maybe.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8395041@N02/2505803867/
Firefox secure password generator
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/135
Password Strategy“I don’t like changing my passwords”
=IDLCMPW
For Amazon use:AIDLCMPWZ
For Facebook use:FIDLCMYPWB
Add numbers, mixed case, symbols, etc to improve.
Locking down the desktop
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Windows Steady Statehttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/
products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx
Lock profilesHard disk protection
Non-free optionsDeep Freeze
http://www.faronics.com/html/deepfreeze.asp
Centurion Guardhttp://www.centuriontech.com/products/centurionguard/
Can they run as admin if I have
Steady State installed?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/3417929927/
Anti-Virus
Free optionsClamWin (Free, OpenSource, no real-time)
http://www.clamwin.com/
AVG Free (Free for “home”)http://free.avg.com/
Avast! (Free for “home”) http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
Running software
like Windows
Steady State
eliminates the need to
run anti-virus
software since once you reboot
the virus will be gone.
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Anti-Phishing
Browser PrivacyZero the historyZero the cacheTurn off password memory
Any Questions?Michael Sauers
Technology Innovation [email protected]
Diane WellsComputer Support [email protected]