Even someone with the best of intentions can accidentally do something that puts your network environment at risk, and the problem lies in the privileges that local administrative rights give users. Of course, none of these reasons are meant to suggest that an employee will not use their admin access wisely.
“Carte blanche” is a fun term to say, but toss it into a sentence about your information security and suddenly it foretells some bad repercussions: “we gave our employees carte blanche access to their workstations, and now we’ve got more viruses than a CDC laboratory.” Sounds bad, doesn’t it? That’s because it really is.Īllowing users full discretionary power over their computers is dangerous - for a whole host of reasons.
