As part of the TCS cybersecurity initiative, the Technology Department has begun removing local administrator privileges from staff laptops. The premise of this change is to prevent unwanted, possibly malicious software from being installed on TCS owned devices. They have already made this change within several central office departments and MES. They are working on this at CES this week. They will begin making this change at Paine beginning Monday, December 5th. Please see the information below from the Technology Department so you will know what to expect next week when this is implemented.
- The lock screen on their PC’s will change. Staff would begin seeing this when their PC is locked.
- Staff will still have the ability to set their background/desktop images, but their lock screen would be set by us. I think currently that most everyone’s is the default beach style picture that Microsoft provides. They would see this as a friendly reminder to “Think before you click.”
- You notice the red arrow is pointing to “Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to Unlock.” Staff would begin having to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to type in their username/password.
- Moving forward, if staff attempted to install software it would prompt them to enter a username and password to proceed. The prompt would look like the below prompt.
- However, staff will no longer have the ability to install their own software. All software would require a Technology Team Member to enter their credentials to install. If a staff member is presented with the above screen they would need to click No. They would then need to submit a WORF requesting the software to be installed. This shouldn’t be a big issue as all software they are already using is installed and wouldn’t be affected. This would only be if they chose to download and install new software. The premise of this is to keep unwanted, possibly malicious applications, from being installed on our network. Staff would be able to open the TCS Application Catalog (icon on their desktop) to install (without the above prompt) approved software. An example of approved software that is in the TCS Application Catalog is Zoom.
