I'm currently consulting for an internal office of a huge multinational
corporation, one which rolls a lot of its own IT, separate and different from
some company-wide policies. The ones I've been exposed to are quite similar to
your list:
* every connection to outside goes through internal proxy (we do have
quite a list of forbidden URL's as well as protocols)
* Windows XP with anti-virus
* internal IM service
* interestingly enough, there doesn't seem to be an explicit ban on
alternative "unapproved" software, such as iTunes or OpenOffice.org, though
many things don't work if there's no way to direct them to HTTP proxies
* there is a rather peculiar approach to personal web mail, social
networking sites, and sites that incorporate discussions: the web proxy
initially redirects the user to an NDA page (once for every single session);
once the user has typed in their credentials and agreed not to give away
company secrets, etc., they get to go to the original page requested and do
whatever they want
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To: The Java Posse <[email protected]>
Sent: Sat, February 27, 2010 3:24:38 PM
Subject: [The Java Posse] IT policies of large corporations - what is normal?
I am curious... I work for a large software vendor and our policies
are:
-windows only (XP)
-outside IM is banned (we have internal jabber server)
-mandatory software that tracks every piece of software installed on
your machine
-manual proxy that tracks every outgoing web url (no banned urls tho)
-skype is strictly forbidden
-no use of SaaS software for company information
-virus checker on every machine, including servers (kills performance
on builds)
-encrypted harddrives
-itunes is banned
-VPN policy forces all traffic to be routed over internet
The reasons behind this are supposedly that the company must track all
information for legal purposes.
So I'm curious - do companies like Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel
have policies like this?
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