How do you keep a reckless Administrator from hurting your network? - TechRepublic
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January 8, 2008 at 09:00 AM

How do you keep a reckless Administrator from hurting your network?

I work for the DOD. We are very security orienteed due to our mission being national defense. We have a security administrator that is very reckless on how he does things. i.e. unplugging the backup server cause he believes it has malware on it, Pushing out a security patch before it has been tested on a group of workstation, upgrade a a patch on an Intrusion Prevetion System which stopped all Intenet/WAN access.

He is basically allowed to do Carte Blanche in the name of security. It has pissed our HelpDesk off to no extent and makes us look like idiots to our customers. He is allowed to do this cause he gets us good scores on our all important security inspections.

Soon this will be the most tied down functionless network. What can I do to get his actions slowed down and have him follow proper change controls the rest of us do?

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