Do you use a AUP (Acceptable Use Policy)? We use extended logging on a network of over 5,000 systems and sonicwall that logs bad use with a warning to the user as well. Usually scares the bejesus outta them the first few times. Exorbatant misuse results in the user being in violation of the AUP and their login is locked out until their superiors are informed and the user is handled per our regulation for Information Systems Use (1st offense, second offense, etc. Kinda thing). Also we have a catch all banner at login that leaves the user with no excuse that they didn't know. Cuts way down on misuse however it does leave IT (me) with a lot of logs to trudge through which I've created parsers to report use and misuse etc.
(Sent from a mobile device) -Jonathon Johnson On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:07, Jeremy Charles wrote: > I don't want to get on yet another salesdroid's radar, so I'm asking > the community instead. :-) > > We're repeatedly faced with a situation where we purchase more Internet > capacity, our employees eventually oversubscribe it, we buy more, > lather, rinse, repeat. Currently, we're purchasing 40 Mbps of > Internet from our ISP, and the ISP's router guy tells me that his > router typically sees about 60 Mbps of traffic actually trying to come > to us. (We're mostly an eyeball network.) > > I'm tempted to look in to purchasing something like a Websense product > or other mechanism for, shall we say, reducing the appetite for > non-business Internet use during prime business hours. The big > question I first want to get a feel for is: Will the cost of the > system be made up in terms of reduced need to purchase more Internet > capacity? > > Would anybody mind sharing order-of-magnitude numbers on what you had > to pay in order to get something that did a good job at this and how > much reduction in Internet usage you think it resulted in? > > > Yes, I realize that you also have to factor in things like lost > productivity due to web surfing, security risks that the device could > also reduce, etc. That's all fine and good, but it's rather impossible > to put those concepts in to hard numbers that I can put on a purchase > proposal. I need something that I can sell to Layer 8, which is > currently running in "cost paranoid" mode. > > > ---- > Jeremy Charles > Epic's Computer and Technology Services Division > [email protected] > Phone: 608-271-9000 Fax: 608-410-5961 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ (This email was sent from a mobile device) Respectfully, Jonathon Johnson, IASO Alutiiq Security & Technology Sys. Admin., Database Admin. Fort Gordon, GA OEMTD, TRADOC (706) 791-0061 office (84) 780-0061 DSN (706) 284-284-5878 cell "If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all" _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
