Darren Mar-Elia recently published his Top 10 Windows Desktop Lockdown Tips & Tricks in WindowsITPro magazine.  We thought we'd share these with you.  Below is tip #1.  Stay tuned, more to come.

1.  Least privilege is the best privilege:  The single biggest thing you can do to ensure your desktop security is to run your desktops using a least privilege model.  This means not making your users Administrators or Power Users on their desktops.  While this can be challenging to accomplish, with users as administrators, you have no control over what they can do on their systems.

The chart below was taken from data gathered from a recent systems management survey run with Redmond Magazine's audience.  It reveals that while 2/3 of organizations agree with Darren's #1 tip, most have taken an all or nothing approach to lockdown.  Are you hesitant to move to a locked down desktop environment?  If so, why is that?