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Fulfilling Compliance by Eliminating Administrator Rights
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The widespread distribution of administrator rights in an IT infrastructure can be the source of major findings during a company’s regular compliance audit. Due to the issues with application design and intra-office politics, many IT organizations find themselves forced to distribute administrator rights to non-administrative personnel. Yet, this expansion of privileges can result in a drain on resources, an increased level of problems, and ultimately a less secure environment.

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In the spaces bound by the federal government as well as its contractors and partners, new rules have been drafted that dramatically change how federal desktop configurations are locked down. Falling under the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC), these rules mandate hundreds of very specific configurations that must be enabled on any desktop that connects to a federal network.

The FDCC is a security configuration that began with a 2007 memorandum by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB). That memo discusses the need for a centralization of effort in defining a central configuration for all desktops contained within federal IT environments.

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