Yup - if you work for us, you use our machine. Even if you're a consultant
that comes in with their own hardware, you get one of our machines.

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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 10:14 AM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: Home PCs (was: SQL worm?)
> 
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, at 7:02am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm not talking in the office users, but developers home machines.
> 
>   Ahhh, that's a whole 'nother can of worms.  My personal 
> feeling is that if
> it's being used for company stuff, it should be owned, controlled, and
> secured by the company's IT staff.  Anything else becomes a 
> quagmire and
> things can get ugly real quick.  As VPNs and other forms of 
> remote access
> over the Internet become more and more popular, I think we 
> are going to see
> this become a huge problem.  Suddenly, your security 
> perimeter is pushed out
> into everyone's home.  No managed OS, no anti-virus software, 
> no security,
> and 32 different spyware/adware/P2P/backdoor/trojan programs 
> running.  The
> very idea of your average home network being used for 
> anything important
> scares the living daylights out of me.  Of course, this is all way too
> expensive, and nobody ever listens to IT, so I have to do set 
> it up anyway,
> and wait for the excrement to hit the air circulating device.  Then,
> suddenly, management will wake up and ask me why I could 
> allow all these
> insecure practices to go on....
> 
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