RE: Security Fears Prod Many Firms To Limit Staff Use of WebS ervices

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Actually, I was only half-kidding.

For several of our client networks, we use a couple of transparent
web-proxies which automagically block certain types of URL's (e.g.
adult, advertisements), but is pretty liberal on most content.

I can certainly see where a business such as a _bank_ might wish to
be a bit more conservative in it's filtering policies, given the
risk involved. :-)

But GE?  ;-)

- ferg


-- "Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:

I would block file sharing myself if I were in charge of IT, but IM seems
like an overreaction. 

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:40 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Security Fears Prod Many Firms To Limit Staff Use of
WebServices

Knee-jerk fascists. :-)

- ferg


-- "Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com> wrote:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114369288512912073.html?mod=technology_featu
red_stories_hs
Security Fears Prod Many Firms To Limit Staff Use of Web Services

By SHAWN YOUNG
March 30, 2006; Page A1

Companies are clamping down on employees' workplace use of the expanding
range of free Internet services, such as instant messaging and video
downloading, to protect themselves from viruses, communications traffic jams
and regulatory missteps.

General Electric Co. has barred outside instant-messaging and file-sharing
programs, as well as access to personal online email accounts like those
offered by Yahoo Inc. Telecom company Global Crossing Ltd. also blocks
outside instant messaging and online email accounts. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
is one of many banks that blocks Internet services it can't track or
monitor, including outside instant-messaging, phone and email programs.

[snip]


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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