This is pretty old, but I'm now being forced to allow skype on our network, and I'm pretty unhappy about it..
Ken, is your firm still allowing skype, and if so, can you speak to what your security folks did to make themselves happy about allowing skype? Has anyone else here done a security review that gave them a decision one way or the other about allowing it? Kurt On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 08:12, Ken Cornetet <[email protected]> wrote: > We are deploying it here to a few users. > > > > I’m using group policy to turn off being a supernode, downloads, listening > on tcp ports, and 3rd party access to the Skype API. > > > > Our security folks reviewed it and are happy. > > > > From: Tim Evans [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:01 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Skype > > > > Has anyone looked at Skype recently? We’ve got a client that wants us to > use Skype for communications with them. I’ve always been a little leery of > using them in a business environment, but looking at it now, I see they have > a MSI download for easy deployment and a group policy template for central > administration of settings. It all looks pretty cool. While the security guy > in me wants to say no, I’m having a hard time finding a reason not to say > OK. > > > > I’m curious what the members of this esteemed group think about it > > > > > > …Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
