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Reproducing a Microsoft corporate environment on Linux. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 7 months ago by cyborganism@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Most companies I've worked at where employees had a Microsoft work computers. They were under heavy control, even with admin privileges. I was wondering, for a corporate environment, how employees'Linux desktops could be kept under control in a similar way. What would be an open source or Linux based alternative to the following:

policy control
Software Center with software allow lists
controlled OS updates
zscaler
software detection tool to detect what's been installed and determine if any unallowed software is present
antivirus
VPN

I can think of a few things, like a company having it's own software repos, or using an atomic distribution. There's already open source VPN solutions if course. But for everything else I don't really know what could be used or what setup we could have.

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[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

other than denying them root access, which might make it hard for them to use the system

If the user is even slightly knowledgeable, they can't all protection systems using sudo. That's a big no-no if you want top-notch security. Source - I have broken my corporate's Linux-specific protection mechanisms.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If the user is even slightly knowledgeable, they can’t all protection systems using sudo. That’s a big no-no if you want top-notch security. Source - I have broken my corporate’s Linux-specific protection mechanisms.

I'm not 100% sure I'm getting what you were trying to say in that first sentence, but you realize that not all users have sudo privileges, and if your company left you with sudo that was a mistake, correct?

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I meant that if a company wants to maintain the highest levels of security, the user should never be given access to sudo. If a certain workflow requires sudo, the workflow needs to be changed, or it needs to be done in a sanitized environment, or the user needs to be highly trusted.