itsecurity.com — The Wall Street Journal recently published an article looking at security on network systems and, more precisely, how to get around it so that the average employee can do the things they want that the network idoesn't allow. Is the tabloid ethos of Murdoch and News Corp. already rubbing off?
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miriclaireAug 15, 2007
You are aptly named, my friend.
mellertimeAug 16, 2007
Perhaps that's your perception from outside looking in. Looking out from the inside, you see that you're constantly being hammered from all sides by people demanding that they have it their way, while being heavily constrained by company policies and (in the case of SOX or HIPAA) federal regulations. Everyone complains because they can't watch their YouTube videos or because they can't waste company bandwidth and resources using P2P on the high-speed connection, but no one realizes that those restrictions are in place for very valid reasons. Follow the proper procedures, be reasonable, and submit your change request through the proper authorities with the proper information, and how many times is your request simply trashed? That's what I thought...
mellertimeAug 16, 2007
They are talking about enterprise security in enterprise environments. If your company only has one "IT Guy", it is NOT an "enterprise environment", I'm sorry.
yellowsnowconeAug 16, 2007
IT departments are tyrants ...
mabhatterAug 16, 2007
first you'd be surprised how what size company it takes to have more than one "IT" guy devoted to security... I work for a company with 1000+ employees and 3 plants and it's still an afterthought. What ends up happening is that IT people that know they have rules to follow buy security products that promise "one click" configuration. They set the bar to "max" and move on. Like other posters have said, there is much legal weight riding on security now.. you legally HAVE to block email and IM, you HAVE to monitor communication or you as the IT staff and management may be criminally liable if things like insider trading happen. Hence, it's lock all the doors and make every body beg for keys. It sucks, but if your IT staff doesn't understand it, they have to block it. Now I think IT staff should be out there working on how intranets and the internet can be useful in business, but they're already working OT just to keep up with users demands for petty changes.. it's not really a management imperative to "web 2.0" the company. It should be, there's huge gains, but fact is that most IT managers got "stuck" with the job 10 years ago and have no hobby interest in IT beyond their job because it's so stressful.
antoncAug 17, 2007
A lot more comments to the WSJ piece are tagged here: <a class="user" href="http://del.icio.us/anton18/security+awareness+stupidity">http://del.icio.us/anton18/security+awareness+stupidity</a>
canadienseAug 19, 2007
The majority of you folks are corporate dweebs. Deciding to dedicate your life to the people you work for is insane. Screw the lifelong pursuit for a buck, a pension, a home in the burbs, etc.If people want to screw with the system, oh well. Life goes on. Go save a whale or plant a tree.
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