In keeping with Ken's point of view, I have experienced more than enough inconvenience due to USERS using various windows-born "Instant Messengers" to exchange non-work related junk and potential new viruses between each other.
I have pulled up the outdated and poorly worded AUP as dictated from the Computing Dept on campus, and reviewed our dilemma with my boss. The first words out of his mouth were so anticipated, it made me laugh; "who is going to enforce these rules? I guess it has to be held up for everyone, and not just known offenders?" Our organization has a severe lack of calcium in their backbones, as does a lot of real-world organizations. At this point, I find that installing firewall software on every WindowsPC is becoming a must. Budget year end is near... - Chris Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I assume that either you do not have a corporate policy that explicitly > forbids use of p2p filesharing software, or you do have a policy but > just don't properly enforce it with appropriate punishment. > > a strictly enforced corporate policy is the best way to stop p2p > filesharing use. make an example out of somebody. > > Regards, > ken > > Ken Williams ; Technical Lead ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > eSecurityOnline - an eSecurity Venture of Ernst & Young > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; www.esecurityonline.com ; 1-877-eSecurity > >
