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Booklet:
Development
and Acquisition Section: Maintenance Subsection: Utility Controls |
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Standards
should be in place to control the use of utility programs. Utility programs
facilitate the management of disk drives, printers, and other operating
system resources. Utility programs often exist as part of an operating
system, and provide tools for program debugging, file maintenance, and
corrupt data correction. Utility programs can allow a user to create,
modify, move, rename, copy, or delete code and data from program libraries
and data files. Therefore, management should strictly control the use
of the programs.
Organizations should restrict the use of utility programs with logical
access controls or remove the utilities from program libraries, place
them under dual control, and load them only when necessary. Management
should exercise caution to ensure the removal of a utility does not adversely
affect other systems or applications.