Interesting point.... It doesn't mean a darn thing but it would interesting to see the sales folk squirm if they were asked to sign a disclaimer document stating that they'd be responsible for password related security breeches. What a shame it wouldn't be enforceable!
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:26 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] SHAREPOINT AND EXTERNAL LDAP I have been told (BTW) by the patch management tool folks that still support customers that buy NT patches -- that their main customers that buy NT patches from Microsoft are banks and financial institutions. Consider as well that when I walk into Bank of America they are running DOS based apps. I wouldn't use "banks" as a shining example of security policy...when BofA has 1. allowed slammer to nail their ATM networks 2. Lost backup tapes causing identity theft as two such shining examples of security policy in action. Who's going to be on the firing line when something happens? Bank of America? Or your buns? If it's your buns, are your comfortable with not changing passwords? Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: > I have been involved in externally facing Microsoft sponsored > extranet/Sharepoint sites. > > The password gets changed. > > We have a GUI web portal and we are forced to change the password. > Sales people set your security policy these days? > > Ramon Linan wrote: >> HI, >> >> I have a SharePoint site for a client, it is driving me crazy because >> the sales people are telling me that the users for this site, cant >> have their password expiring. The client is a government agency, so I >> don't want to be responsible for any information being stolen. >> >> How big of a security risk is not having password expiring? it seems >> to me like security 101, but the sales guy is saying that banks don't >> ask you to change your password every X day, good point. >> >> >> Something I was thinking is having SharePoint authenticating with >> their LDAP server, is this possible to do? can anybody point to a url >> on how to do this? >> >> thanks >> >> Rezuma > -- Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? http://www.threatcode.com If you are a SBSer and you don't subscribe to the SBS Blog... man ... I will hunt you down... http://blogs.technet.com/sbs List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
