We keep a lax environment - our users are local admins on their Windows
laptops and we not stop them from installing any software they want - the
only caveat I ever say is 'don't be stupid'. And yes, we are a hi-tech
house, well beyond the startup stage.
During a conversation about potential changes to the way we do backups
today, I stated that the current back up routine specifically excludes most
media files, and also that I'd used psexec to kill utorrent processes. My
boss, who is actually quite knowledgeable in IT matters, had a response
surprised me: why? Why not backup the media files? Why not allow torrent
traffic? His points were as follows:
1. We give them laptops and smartphones and expect them to be available
at all hours of the day - that's convergence of home and office life - why
shouldn't we backup the photos of their kids, pets and vacations too?
2. Do we have bandwidth issues? We have a broad link to the internet
and only at periodic peaks do we hit anywhere near our limit
3. Legality of torrents? Really? How many people care about the
legality?
4. Malware? We have other protections in place.
I couldn't come up with any answers that sounded reasonable to me, so at
this stage, we're planning increase our backup storage capacity.
Does anyone here have answers that I lack? Sorry for cross-posting, but I
this question is bothering me, and I know that many people in this for a
have strong, well-formed (and well-expressed) opinions
Kish n Kepi
