RE: monitoring remote access

["Robert Driscoll" <driscoll_r () primesource com>]

I'm not sure if this question has been asked, but does a company have
any liability for employee actions on the internet? My company has a
policy in effect that asks the employee to not use company resources to
perform 'unsavory acts' on the internet. The policy uses the honor system
and the fact that everyone goes through a firewall and all that activity
is logged is a perhaps a deterrant.

Recently an executive at a well known Internet company in Seattle was
arrested by the FBI for 'minor luring'. Although he is facing charges
I don't believe the company has any liability.



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-firewall-wizards () lists nfr net
[mailto:owner-firewall-wizards () lists nfr net]On Behalf Of Jack Dingler
Sent: Wednesday November 10, 1999 8:02 AM
To: Daniel Djundjek
Cc: firewall-wizards () nfr net
Subject: Re: monitoring remote access


The company could hire a private investigation firm to monitor their
activities.
This would also allow the company to monitor their physical activities too.
The
company would immediately be informed if an employee gets an unsavory
tattoo,
has body hair removed, or is engaging in an extramarital affair.  Anything
the
company needs to know about the private lives of their employees, could then
be
discussed in company meetings.

Jack Dingler

Daniel Djundjek wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> A strange request was put to me....
>
> A company is setting up a number of dial up accounts via an isp for their
> employees able to work at home.  Now since they are dialing in via an isp
> and not directly in to the main office, the company would like to monitor
> the employees activity to ensure they are not doing anything
unsavoury(porn,
> hacking, abusing company privelidges).
>
> Does anyone know of any 3rd party tools which can send alerts to a central
> location for users on a dial up account.  The dynamic ip allocation would
be
> a problem but is there anything which can cope with this type of request??