This might sound obvious, but keep an eye on the security news too. For instance, I blocked facebook when it was propagating viruses... When it cleared up I unblocked it.
-----Original Message----- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 4:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: For all of those that think facebook at work is acceptable I have to allow these sites since we are using them for legitimate business purposes - we have a social media push in marketing and are establishing our presence on Facebook and Twitter. So...what kind of advice would you suggest beyond the normal best practices? (We have gateway AV, IPS, desktop AV, all users are non-admins, we patch all installed apps judiciously as available, etc.) - Andy O. ________________________________________ From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: For all of those that think facebook at work is acceptable So imagine, if you are letting these types of things in, you are basically opening yourself up for attack. I think most peoples acceptable use policies probably state "computers are used for bussiness purposes only, any other use of such company computer assets is strictly forbidden and is grounds up to and including termination of employment" ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
