The University has had Desktop Recommendations (originally called Desktop Standards) since the mid-1990s. At that time, Penn was anticipating the roll-out of a new client/server application and we discovered that we had no public standards for personal computers—only the hope that the Computer Connection was stocking appropriate systems.

At my current job, I have a need to be access multiple AWS accounts. Generally we follow the AWS best practices for security and set up IAM accounts with restricted functionality that can access only the resources that are appropriate for the completion of the task at hand. At this point we've looked at federation technologies (such as SAML), but haven't yet implemented this.