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Not sure why you are looking for standards.. It depends on the individual or the company .. well that can be needlessly argued about. <br />
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the minimum time as you can see is 1 minute. that is the fastest you can make password protection to kick in when the user leaves the machine. If your company is worried about that , then you should look for other alternate methods , example , just lock the machine and go . If they are OK with 1 minute , make sure that is fine .. <br />
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Not sure why you are looking for standards.. It depends on the individual or the company .. well that can be needlessly argued about.

the minimum time as you can see is 1 minute. that is the fastest you can make password protection to kick in when the user leaves the machine. If your company is worried about that , then you should look for other alternate methods , example , just lock the machine and go . If they are OK with 1 minute , make sure that is fine ..



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I think it depends on your work. If you have to walk arround table (such as messaging etc.), you should set to minimum. If you always have to pick the phone up, you should set to about 5 minutes. 
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I think it depends on your work. If you have to walk arround table (such as messaging etc.), you should set to minimum. If you always have to pick the phone up, you should set to about 5 minutes.

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I should have added that even that document is unlikely to give you a hard recommendation for screen saver timeouts.
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I should have added that even that document is unlikely to give you a hard recommendation for screen saver timeouts.

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Can any one provide me with an industry standard for the recommended idle time before a password protected screen saver kicks in? &nbsp;I'm locking horns with the VPs here over this, so I need something from creditable source.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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Can any one provide me with an industry standard for the recommended idle time before a password protected screen saver kicks in?  I'm locking horns with the VPs here over this, so I need something from creditable source.

Thanks,
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Desktop Securtiy Best Practices - Idle time for password protected screen saver

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