Ask your corporate counsel about it, and mention data loss, especially if you have personal information about clients or employees available.
For myself and my company, I don't allow any personal devices to connect with the network. Ever. The chance of an unmanaged/user-managed machine wreaking havoc on my network is simply too great. More to the point - I've seen conversations on a couple of different lists in the past couple of months about company which allowed personal laptops into the network, and then tried to demand that the user provide the company access to them upon termination for inspection (and a complete disk wipe!) to determine if company data had been loaded onto the laptop. which the employee (rightfully, IMHO) refused. We're talking lawsuit territory here. Keep it simple - if the job specs warrant a laptop, the company needs to provide the laptop, and it's company property, managed according to company standards. Kurt On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:35 AM, David Baca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a user who wants to use their own laptop for business use. He likes > the way it's set up but I have always been the one who says it's better to > have the company buy one and keep personal and business separate. I see > this could be an issue of privacy and also an issue of control in that i > have no real say on what is installed on his machine and what if any > policies can be inforced. Your thoughts? I don't want to be paranoid and i > see the cost savings in having him use his own computer but am i asking for > trouble in the long run. > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
