The Cisco IronPort WSA is an appliance for outbound internet access that looks to have some controls in this vein. I have not used this device, but we are at the earliest stages of considering it (i.e. vendor is pitching it). This link is to a document that describes micro-managing FaceBook access.: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/wsa/wsa7.0/user_guide/Controlli ng_Facebook_Activity.pdf
The main page on the device is: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10164/index.html From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 10:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Social networking fun To police it? Block it. To manage it? I'm not aware of a product that can do it, but if you monitor/log, there is all sorts of stuff you can block without stymieing your marketing dept. -- ME2 On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:07 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: 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 -- "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." IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ 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 ~ 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 ~ 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
