Re: Re: Allowing access to social networking... securely?

[Stephen Mullins <steve.mullins.work () gmail com>]

If they want to spend all day browsing My Space so badly that they
will bring in a USB wireless device and hijack wireless from a nearby
office or VPN back to their home PC, I think they should be given a
great deal more free time to spend at home on My Space, and I don't
mean telecommuting.  It's definitely an HR issue at that point.  I
know a guy that plays World of Warcraft from his office using his
personally owned laptop with a Sprint wireless card.  He sets the
laptop out of sight in a desk drawer and hooks it up to one of the
displays on his desk.  He has a KVM on the floor he can hit with his
foot to switch over to a screen with a network diagram set as the
background to look like it is an open program he's working on should
he hear someone coming down the hall towards his desk.  At some point,
you just have to send these people home to momma.

Steve

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:03 PM,  <no () dot no> wrote:
> Patrick, good response. But I wonder about this..
> "The OP's suggested risk vector - malware infested proxy sites isn't even
> the worst one introduced. I've seen places where blocking has induced
> users to use bypass mechanisms including:
>
> - Separate dialup connections
> - USB Wifi piggy-backing on nearby offices' signals
> - SSH tunneling
> - VPN connections out to a machine acting as a proxy (home PC for example)
> - GoToMyPC or equivalent to a machine acting as a proxy"
>
> If you have a user that will violate corporate policy by circumventing systems put in place, that is an HR issue. The 
> examples you site, we block. We're incredibly concerned about data leakage being in the financial industry. Maybe 
> those systems aren't needed in all forms of business.
>
> I'm of the belief that we all choose where we work, and we all play by the rules laid out by mgmt. We can choose to 
> play along, or not. Those measures aren't put in place to make people's work environment less fun. They're done for 
> the well being of the company. It only takes one person to leak out sensitive data, emails, etc and create a 
> potentially bad situation.
>
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