Disclaimer: Elron Software, my employer, is a content filtering company
Marcus J. Ranum said:
>terminate the top 2 employees who violate your
>acceptable use policy. Make sure everyone knows that's why
>they were terminated. The problem will stop pretty fast, I
>guarantee it.
Nice thought.
Before pursuing that recommendation, you may want to consult an attorney.
If you plan on terminating some employees for behavior that you are
tolerating in other employees, you can start preparing to settle the
wrongful termination lawsuit you will be named in.
If you want to avoid legal troubles:
1) Put an Internet Usage Policy in place (aka an Acceptable Usage
Policy)
2) Make sure every employee/student is aware of it, you might go so
far as having them sign an acknowledgement
This is clearly something for the HR dept. if you're in a
corporate setting, Marcus is right about that
3) Inform them if you are going to monitor to enforce the policy
(whether it's real time monitoring or logfile reviews)
4) Enforce the policy consistently, whatever the policy is, (you can't
single out 'worst offenders')
In an academic environment, the penalties are different, and the process
may be as well, but the elements above still apply.
Duncan G. Perry
CFO/VP Information Systems
Elron Software, Inc.
p.s. Not sure I understand why technology is an appropriate solution for a
hacker, but not for employee abuse of resource....
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