"The Linux Foundation’s sysadmin team works almost 100 percent remotely, so we’ve developed a set of guidelines that our team follows to help ensure that their workstations pass core security requirements in order to reduce the risk of attack." - Konstantin Ryabitsev, director of IT infrastructure security at The Linux Foundation.
http://www.datamation.com/open-source/7-essential-tips-for-linux-sysadmin-workstation-security.html.