Screen sharing privacy....?

Is there any way to lock the remote screen?  Our security admin will not allow VNC on our VPN for Mac screen sharing as screen on controlled Mac turns on and anyone can watch what you are doing.  Any ideas?  Guessing may need to install Third Party software.
Thanks in advance.
Andrew

I don't have an answer to that question, but your security admin really ought to be aware that having untrusted people around machines with sensitive data is inherently insecure.  If the concern is that janitorial staff or whatnot may be able to get access to sensitive data after hours, note that they could do that already with nothing more than a hard drive containing Mac OS X, unless the data is encrypted somehow.  The same would be true of Windows.
So if your admin's concerns are justified, you obviously need something more secure than screen sharing, but you also need some form of encryption in place, if you don't already.

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    http://lowendmac.com/ed/rosen/mac-remote-control.html

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    Message was edited by: Simon Bramley

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    I am having a networking problem on one of the volumes of my multi-volumed, three-Mac local area network, and I need a networking guru to identify the specific software file(s), application(s), or system configuration that is the cause of the problem. I have already spent several hours checking and re-checking the various hardware and system preference settings involved, and I have narrowed the problem down to a software corruption issue and/or system configuration issue on one volume.
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    CORRECTION #2:
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    Oops, excuse me, I wrote that sentence correctly the first time.
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