Local staff should employ such vendor supplied control features. NOT shared - Sharing confuses audit trails, can result in more access than is necessary, and can result in unnecessary errors. While there is no requirement for changing passwords university wide, they should be changed. Id can do. Because of the nature of network access to computers, they are susceptible to passive wiretaps.
Most systems have the ability to encrypt or scramble passwords.
This is often a simple control to implement with powerful results. Access to our systems can come from Dialup, Internet, Terminal connection or through any users workstation. Unfortunately, individual users can set their PC up to allow dial-up access to it. LAN managers can do the same for their servers. Request Form - A form allows for quicker analysis of requests, an audit trail, and a signoff by requester.