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Originally Posted by JCL
At my company, we would rather you brought in your personal laptop for personal use at lunchtime, but we won't let it connect through us, wired or wireless, unless you are in a room set up for the consultants, with a DMZ. Employees can also use their work PC for personal use, but only for those sites that make it through variouis filters (Leisure topics are blocked, for example. as are practically all instant messenger apps, as are all popular web mail sites) I am pretty sure that employees can find lots of unsecured WiFi networks in the downtown office area where I work, but none of them should be on our network. The few that have popped up have been detected fairly quickly, and disabled.
Yes, it is all a pain, but so is non-compliance as a listed company.
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I hear you. I do SOX 404 compliance for our company and realize how much of a pain it is (for us and my fellow employees who have to do all the paperwork for their individual lines of business). It isn't fun.
I am surprised but my companies network is not fully locked down yet, I thought this would have been something they were working on. I can plug any PC into any jack still. I would have thought they would have locked down the ports to each MAC address, but nothing yet.
I do understand the reasons behind a firewall and a web filter -- life would be rather chaotic without each one. As long as the company is not too restrictive with the web filtering (or at least unlock it during lunch hour) I think it's completely understandable and fair.