Michael Sauers & Diane Wells
Nebraska Library Commission
NCompass Live – 8 April 2009

It’s all about
balance
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17149966@N00/514646045/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80672516@N00/501791705/

General strategies
 Don’t allow booting from anything but the hard drive
(this is set in the BIOS)
 Set a BIOS password
 The public should not run as admin (maybe unless…)

Patch
Tuesday

Reduce
Temptation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42921300@N00/618480797/

Passwords
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31557656@N06/3303542092/

Passwords: from good to great
 Size does matter
 Case sensitivity
 Numbers
 Punctuation & Symbols
 Spaces are usually allowed
 Changed often… maybe.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8395041@N02/2505803867/

Firefox secure password generator
https://addons.mozilla.org/e
n-US/firefox/addon/135

Password Strategy
 “I don’t like changing my passwords”
=
IDLCMPW
 For Amazon use:
AIDLCMPWZ
 For Facebook use:
FIDLCMYPWB
 Add numbers, mixed case, symbols, etc to improve.

Locking
down the
desktop
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19387816@N00/196455538/

Windows Steady State
 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfa
mily/sharedaccess/default.mspx
 Lock profiles
 Hard disk protection

Non-free options
 Deep Freeze
http://www.faronics.com/html/deepfreeze.asp
 Centurion Guard
http://www.centuriontech.com/products/centurionguard/

Can they run as
admin if I have
Steady State
installed?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/3417929927/

Anti-Virus

Free options
 ClamWin (Free, OpenSource, no real-time)
http://www.clamwin.com/
 AVG Free (Free for “home”)
http://free.avg.com/
 Avast! (Free for “home”)
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Running
software like
Windows
Steady State
eliminates the
need to run
anti-virus
software since
once you
reboot the
virus will be
gone.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90829399@N00/2870242065/

Anti-Phishing

Browser Privacy
 Zero the history
 Zero the cache
 Turn off password memory

Any Questions?
 Michael Sauers
Technology Innovation Librarian
msauers@nlc.state.ne.us
 Diane Wells
Computer Support Services
dwells@nlc.state.ne.us