Want users in your company to follow the security policies and practices you lay down?
Want users in your company to follow the security policies and practices you lay down? Be an example to them by following these same policies yourself. For example, never browse the web or check email using your administrator account, use an ordinary user account instead. Change your password as frequently as ordinary users have to do the same. And so on.
Not only will your users respect you (and the policies you preach to them) if you do this, but you'll also discover firsthand which policies are silly or unrealistic or too difficult to comply with and thus head off user complaints about the same. Smart move!
About Mitch Tulloch
Mitch Tulloch was lead author for the Windows Vista Resource Kit from Microsoft Press, which is the book for IT pros who want to deploy, maintain and support Windows Vista in mid- and large-sized network environments. Mitch was also the author of Introducing Windows Server 2008 and technical project lead for the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit, both books also from Microsoft Press. For more information on these and other books by Mitch, see www.mtit.com .
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