Eh. Part of it is what employees think they can get away with. We have quite a few clients who go the extra length and deploy spector cne everywhere. :)
If your in the intellectual property business you have to. If one of their mastercam drawings left their building, there would be a rash of quick firings. (I've been to one... Go out the night before, clean out employee desk, call them and meet them at Denny's in the morning with a crate of their crap. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: "Anthony Q. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:45:19 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Flash drive(s) so the personal computer is truly dead. Hayes Elkins wrote: > It's pretty much the standard corporate environment now to have a PC with no > floppy or ROM drive (or access disabled), usb ports turned off (save for > KB&M) and PCI slots disabled. Nobody 10 years ago though much of security > concerns when taking 1.44MB floppies home, but when you can put a 32GB flash > drive into a desktop and take the entire network shares with you - it raises > a red flag on just why anybody needs access to a floppy/ROM/usb storage > device in the first place.> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 19:35:51 -0500> From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com> Subject: Re: [H] Flash > drive(s)> > Security. If you were using a workstation that had access to > government > secrets, health records, financial records, etc., the powers > that be > would want to ensure that a rogue worker would not come in and copy > that > information into a small, easily concealed flash drive and walk off > with > secret data.> > DHSinclair wrote:> > Ben,> > Nice. Really nice! Is > there some reason the "power's-that-be" did this? > > NO! Don't even hazard a > guess! Will get tools, will live on. Not yet > > ready to play with "Group > Policy" business, yet. I've learned that GP > > is really big "mana" and that > I am not 'read' enough to play there. > > Fine. I will truck on. I am still a > default kind of person (subject to > > M$ updates, that is). Thanks much.> > > Best,> > Duncan >_________________________________________________________________ > Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail®-get your > "fix". > http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx >
