Re: PROGRAMMER ACCESS TO PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT

We are a small shop as well, we have 5 total in our IS Department.  Four 
of us have complete access to every environment, the other person is our 
PC Network person & he does not have full access, no need to really.

We have been asked before if we allow too much access to production data & 
our feeling is if you are worried about a programmer gaining access to 
production data vs test data, then do you really want them to be writing 
programs that will be in production? We do not have the number of staff 
members to assign different people different areas they are responsible 
for, so everyone does whatever is necessary to get the job done. 

It is really difficult when you have limited staff to only allow one 
person to do a task, what happens when that person is sick, on vacation, 
or maternity leave?

I guess you could just change your job title from Programmer to Security 
Administrator, make your security changes, then switch job titles again.. 
:-)



Steve Jones



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My boss asked me to pose this question on the MAPICS user group list.   We
are a small shop with 2 full-time programmers and 2 part-time contractors.
The full time programmers are responsible for setting up MAPICS security 
for
users.   Part of the audit comments during our Sarbanes-Oxley audit  was 
to
eliminate all programmers access to the production environment including
security (of course they have no suggestion on who would set up security).
We would like to know how other small shops handle this situation.  Do 
your
programmers have access to the production environment?  Who is responsible
for establishing MAPICS security on your system?

 

Thank you,

Candy Hein

 

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