Use of Sandboxie in Schools as an alternative to Virtual Machines
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 10:02 am
Good Afternoon,
I currently work in a small to medium sized secondary school. The situation that we have in place at the moment is that we currently don't have any Software Restriction Policies or AppLocker rules in place.
The potential route that we're heading down is that we would like to implement AppLocker rules across our domain but not at the expense of our Computer Science curriculum. Our Head of Department has previously used a Virtual Machine whilst working in another establishment and strongly disapproves of them as they don't have the same performance as a normal desktop environment and are also cumbersome and somewhat time consuming.
The question I'm asking in this Email is how could Sandboxie allow the Computer Science curriculum to be safely and securely delivered? The requirements we have are as follows but not limited to:
- Run only specified programs in Sandboxie
- No settings to be changed by students and no access to Sandboxie interface
- Can't access any network resources (via UNC or mapped drives) other than their own work areas
- Can only run executables related to their project but not any associated to our systems or any which can gain information about our network.
The software we use consists of Visual Studio 2013, Notepad++ and Python.
Sorry if it is a bit long winded!
All the best
Davey
I currently work in a small to medium sized secondary school. The situation that we have in place at the moment is that we currently don't have any Software Restriction Policies or AppLocker rules in place.
The potential route that we're heading down is that we would like to implement AppLocker rules across our domain but not at the expense of our Computer Science curriculum. Our Head of Department has previously used a Virtual Machine whilst working in another establishment and strongly disapproves of them as they don't have the same performance as a normal desktop environment and are also cumbersome and somewhat time consuming.
The question I'm asking in this Email is how could Sandboxie allow the Computer Science curriculum to be safely and securely delivered? The requirements we have are as follows but not limited to:
- Run only specified programs in Sandboxie
- No settings to be changed by students and no access to Sandboxie interface
- Can't access any network resources (via UNC or mapped drives) other than their own work areas
- Can only run executables related to their project but not any associated to our systems or any which can gain information about our network.
The software we use consists of Visual Studio 2013, Notepad++ and Python.
Sorry if it is a bit long winded!
All the best
Davey