Thanks! It didn't dawn on me to search the archives.

All of our systems are touch screen only, so it does make it a little
simpler to lock down.

We are starting to talk with IT as well about segmenting those boxes onto a
separate VLAN to limit what they can get to as well.

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Patrick Davis | Exhibitions AV Specialist | The Field Museum
1400 S Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605
312-665-7968

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Matt Morgan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> This has been a popular conversation on the list for many years, so have a
> look at the archives for a lot of stuff to dig up:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=kiosk&l=mcn-l%40mcn.edu
>
> I don't know if this is stuff you already do/know about, but I would say
> the basics at least used to be
>
> 1. Use Windows policies to limit what can happen in the OS (like killing
> right-click, etc., & making sure only the browser can start up).
> 2. Firewall off the kiosk network onto a different segment than Wifi
> networks, internal networks, DMZ, etc.
> 3. Use some kind of browser kiosk software to restrict what the browser
> can see/do (I think off-the-shelf products are mostly preferred now).
> 4. Physically secure the boxes and the ethernet ports to prevent a million
> other problems.
>
> For #4, your design department will probably love the idea of
> designing/building beautiful cases, with integrated keyboards (that have no
> ctrl/alt/super/function keys) if you need them, etc (or touch-screen
> keyboards where it makes sense). It will look expensive, but it's less
> costly than your time, and of course anything in the galleries should be as
> good-looking as it can be.
>
> I'm probably forgetting a lot--it's been a while!
>
>
> On 11/06/2015 09:04 AM, Patrick Davis wrote:
>
>> New to the group. Looking forward to seeing what everyone has to say.
>>
>> One question that just recently was asked of me by our Director of
>> Technology was how we are securing the computers that run our digital
>> interactives in the public space. Not well was my answer. We are currently
>> hovering around 75 different digital interactives and are adding new ones
>> all the time.
>>
>> I was wondering what everyone here does to lock down their windows 7 pro
>> installations. In our situation we have three different kind of
>> applications running. A majority of them are standalone flash projectors.
>> The rest either run on Firefox or Chrome. I always lean towards open
>> source
>> solutions but we do have some room in our budget to purchase software to
>> make this work. Ideally there would be some kind of central management
>> solution that we could use to not only lock them down but keep tabs on
>> what
>> is going on.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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>> Patrick Davis | Exhibitions AV Specialist | The Field Museum
>> 1400 S Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605
>> 312-665-7968
>>
>>
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