1. A distributed configuration management system comprising: a configuration management server comprising at least one processor and at least one memory to store a configuration management application that is executed by the at least one processor to, for each of a plurality of user devices: receive, from a user device, a request to access information or an application from a privileged communication network each time the information or the application is accessed, the request including configuration management information from the user device, the configuration management information including data associated with one or more parameters of the user device to be configured; for each parameter, access a parameter value associated with the parameter from at least one device configuration file stored in the at least one memory; and transmit the accessed parameter values to the user device, wherein the parameters of the user device are configured using the parameter values received from the application, and wherein the user device is executed to access the information or the application using the configured parameters of the user device.