How About Smart Use?
The most recent issue of Infoworld has an article on tools to assist IT departments in complying with all the security regulations that have popped up. There's a sidebar on the "Top 10 Ways to Fail a Security Audit". Number 10: make sure you have a fair-use policy to let employees what they should and shouldn't do with their PC. After all, "[h]ow should employees know that downloading MP3s is forbidden if you don't tell them?" Um, let's see, they could use common sense? I don't need a policy to know that certain things are no nos. The PC, after all, belongs to my company, not to me, not to mention with all the viruses floating around, why would I do anything that increases the risk of placing a virus on my machine?
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Umm, yes. But you are reasonably intelligent about technology (judging from this post). I did tech support at a large company for a few years. We are talking about the sort of people who call tech support because their computer is unplugged. We are talking about people who leave their passwords on a post-it-note under their keyboards... these people have to Be Told.
Posted by: Kathy K | March 24, 2005 08:25 PM