HIPAA SOX MA 201 CMR 17.00 To varying degrees they all boil down to:
We define a security policy that meets the regulatory requirements and base configurations to meet that policy and then report regularly on performance to standards. I see from one of your follow-up posts that Apple Remote Desktop is akin to Group Policy. -Jeff Steward On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Matthew W. Ross <mr...@ephrataschools.org>wrote: > Can you be more specific? What standards are you needing to be compliant > to? An example regulation would help me answer your question. > > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > On Sep 7, 2010, at 10:26 AM, "Jeff Steward" <jstew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A school environment is not the same as a public company environment. > Compliance to <insert your favorite standard here> and reporting on said > compliance or non-trivial issues for public companies or private companies > subject to other regulations. There are a wealth of tools for managing > these issues in a Windows environment, can the same be said of the Mac > environment? > > -Jeff Steward > > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Matthew W. Ross <<mr...@ephrataschools.org> > mr...@ephrataschools.org> wrote: > >> Macs are not the burden you make them sound to be. >> >> Integrating a Mac into a windows network is never going to be painless; >> the two systems are inherently different. If what you want is a Windows >> experience from your Mac, install Windows. >> >> Now not everybody likes MacOS X, but the same can be said for Windows. >> Insert the problem of subjective preference here. >> >> Personally, I love working on my iMac, and managing the other Macs in our >> district is very easy if you use the provided Apple tools: Mac OS X server, >> Open Directory, and Apple Remote Desktop. >> >> Then again, I hate how a Mac _can_ cost 2x as much as a comparable PC. I >> do like that software upgrades are cheaper for Mac, but I don't like how >> apple drops support for anything that is not the current generation or the >> previous one. If you're 2 generations back, you're out of luck. >> >> What can a Mac do that a PC Can't? Nothing. But I would argue that >> competition is one of the pillars of innovation. Without Mac OS X competing >> against Windows, what would Windows look like today? >> >> >> --Matt Ross >> Ephrata School District >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: James Hill >> [mailto: <james.h...@superamart.com.au>james.h...@superamart.com.au] >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> [mailto: <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> >> ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] >> Sent: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 >> 19:28:49 -0700 >> Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix >> >> >> > We have pretty much eliminated all of the Mac's here. >> > >> > We didn't have 3rd party products to manage them so they always required >> so >> > much manual interaction. Any global change we made we could easily >> automate >> > with PC's thanks to group policy etc but it was always a manual change >> for >> > the Mac's. >> > >> > They really aren't a corporate product imo. You only have to look to >> Apple >> > for a corporate grade management solution to realise that it doesn't >> exist. >> > >> > They do indeed need patching ( <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222> >> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222) and there >> > is AV products for them. Symantec has one for example. Personally I >> think >> > the day is coming when someone will write a decent bit of malware/virus >> for >> > them and 99% plus will get caught out by it. There is a very misguided >> > opinion amongst the Apple community that they are safe. Apple's false >> > advertising only strengthens this. The facts are that Mac's are more >> > vulnerable than the PC world <http://www.crn.com/security/226200083> >> http://www.crn.com/security/226200083 >> > >> > More importantly, what is the need for the Mac's in the first place? >> For us >> > they were only sued for Adobe CS, which runs just fine on PC's. In fact >> > these days Adobe is more behind the PC world than the Mac. For example, >> > 64bit Photoshop was first on PC, had to wait for CS5 for Mac to get it. >> > That's without going into the Flash debate :) >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > From: David Lum [mailto: <david....@nwea.org>david....@nwea.org] >> > Sent: Saturday, 4 September 2010 6:07 AM >> > To: NT System Admin Issues >> > Subject: Mac and Windows mix >> > >> > I would like to hear from those of you who have a mixed Windows/Mac >> > environments: How do you handle management of the diverse environment? >> > Presumably with Mac's there is no patching or AV. 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