Then the penalties aren't strong enough - make it a firing offence and
they'll quickly learn what they can and can't do on company computers.
Damage to the computer network should be a fireable offence because it has
the potential to cost the company a lot of money. If they deal with private
info, like credit cards and social security numbers it also risks anyone
whose private information they hold - there is no excuse for allowing that
data to be at risk of viruses and trojans. Viewing or sharing porn should
also result in firing - it opens the company up to expensive harassment
lawsuits if they look the other way.
But... if you know they are this bad, why do you allow them to do anything
not related to work? Block access to all but specific sites at the firewall
- block tinyurl services. Use a content scanner on the mail server to remove
viruses and attachments. Use virus scanners on the file shares and group
policies so they can't open or save exe's and other potentially dangerous
file types.
Antivirus, content control and security has been the most talked about thing
for the past several years - there is no excuse for a 100 person company not
to have their network secured. I feel no sympathy for any company who is hit
by a virus and suffers damage because they were too cheap to take steps to
protect themselves from their users.
On 12/30/05, Harondel J. Sibble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 30 Dec 2005 at 10:39, Diane Poremsky wrote:
>
> Take an office of 100 people, I guarantee you, no matter how many times
> you
> bring home that point and even if there are penalties, fines etc for being
> stupid, 5-10 people will click anyways and maybe even put the offending
> files
> on a file share somewhere so that it can infect the rest of the office.
> Espcially if the item in questions is free, cute or cool, or pornographic.
>
>
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