I don't even want to read this, because my blood pressure is high enough with this sort of thing. If our WebSense server restarts I have a load of users that jump onto Bebo as fast as they can. They spend all day crying about not being able to plug USB keys in and run "joke" programs that their mates send them. And then they whinge when an auditor plugs his laptop in and fills the network full of bloody Conficker. Grrr.
One particular PITA operations manager keeps telling me "we should be balancing security and useability". My response to him is that the system is perfectly usable, for work purposes. This is the same idiot who refers to us as the "traffic light police" because we blocked them from being able to change their OCS status (because some people were permanently in "Do Not Disturb"). Rant off. 2009/11/18 Jonathan Link <[email protected]> > Discuss: > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703567204574499032945309844.html > > I believe this is more an indictment of the low quality of journalism > nowadays. It's little more than a rant on his employer's IT policies. In > no instance does he discuss the measured effect of IT policies might have > within an organization. He makes vague allusions to the productivity gains > users could acheive if allowed to use any software they felt necessary to do > their job. Near the end of the article he does finally discuss some of the > valid reasons for constraining users ability to install shiny new software > in order to be more "productive." > > > > > > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
