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The heightened defensive awareness--or, for the cynical among us, security product push--of the past 10 years has endowed IT with progressively more authority to lock down systems. Federal and state regulations add legitimacy to initiatives like network access control and have pushed obvious security functions like least privilege into Vista. Yet vanguard business technology users are hostile to the notion of IT making unilateral decisions about what they can and cannot run on their systems.
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