Except, outright blocking would fail to support the mandate to let the employees use social networking...
*ASB *(Professional Bio <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Technology Services that Maximize Business Results... * On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are looking for blocking, there are a number of products. We use > Fortinet firewalls here and the category "social networking" is blocked. > There are a number of categories that allow for granular control. > > >>> James Rankin <[email protected]> 4/1/2011 9:09 AM >>> > > I'd be more interested in something that could effectively restrict their > access, rather than simply report on it. But I'll take reporting if it's all > that can be done. If anyone knows of a way to filter these blasted sites > effectively, though, I'd be very pleased to hear of it! > > On 1 April 2011 14:04, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don’t really see how you can produce any meaninfgul reports tbh? >> >> Run any web stat analyzer and you’ll get an absolute ream of hits for that >> kind of site, yet you can load a reasonably small site in terms of hits and >> spend an hour reading the content? >> >> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* 01 April 2011 13:08 >> >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Social networking fun >> >> Does anyone know of any way to effectively police the use of social >> networking in an environment? We have just been told that for some reason >> all employees are to be allowed unrestricted access to social networking >> sites, but obviously the management want to know whether users are taking a >> lend, and spending all day on FarmVille or Bejewelled or looking at pictures >> of their mates instead of updating our customer base as to events and >> launches. There are a few Web 2.0 appliances that I have heard of that claim >> to be able to perform in-depth filtering of social networking and >> microblogging sites, but I was just wondering what other people who have had >> this issue may have deployed to get around this. >> >> We already have WebSense here, but it's not clever enough to differentiate >> between "business" and "leisure" usage of certain sites, at least certainly >> not the version we currently use. >> >> >> TIA, >> >> >> >> JRR >> >> ~ 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
