RE: browser hijacking
- From: "Quillman Shawn (RBNA/CSA1)" <Shawn.Quillman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:01:11 -0400
Yep, and I'm with you on the tool thing as protection from what your AUP allows.
Question, though: have any of these places experienced damages and/or loss of
uptime due to something getting in (extending beyond one or two individual
users)? If not, is there a model that you can put together to show them what
would happen and how enforcing an AUP would help and possibly prevent the
damages?
And of course the follow-up question: do they care...? In many of the small
businesses that I've dealt with the folks making the calls are money people and
when you show money flying out the window to money people it tends to get a
reaction.
-Shawn
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Shawn R. Quillman
Robert Bosch Corporation RBNA/CSA1
38000 Hills Tech Drive
Farmington Hills, MI 48331
(248) 553-1164 (P) (248) 848-6969 (F)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Babinchak [mailto:amy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:43 PM
To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
Subject: browser hijacking
Shawn,
It's not that I disagree with you it's just that the policy in place at
all but one client that I work for is allow everything. In one
location it is allow everything except for the problem child and he gets
no Internet. I let them know that I can block certain kinds of web
access but the response is always no. They prefer to deal with the
problem on a human resources level rather than an IS level. They've
found that if they have someone that isn't behaving themselves on the
Internet then they also have an employee that they have other problems
with. I've seen it several times where when I report Internet abuse it
ends up getting the person fired not because they broke the AUP policy
(which doesn't exist) but because it was the straw that broke the camels
back as it were. Everyone else works happily along with full access to
the Internet. Such is life in the small business arena.
Amy
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