Do you work for a bank? We had everything you mention at the insurance company I worked at.
On Feb 28, 7:24 am, "phil.swen...@gmail.com" <phil.swen...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am curious... I work for a large software vendor and our policies > are: > > -windows only (XP) > -outside IM is banned (we have internal jabber server) > -mandatory software that tracks every piece of software installed on > your machine > -manual proxy that tracks every outgoing web url (no banned urls tho) > -skype is strictly forbidden > -no use of SaaS software for company information > -virus checker on every machine, including servers (kills performance > on builds) > -encrypted harddrives > -itunes is banned > -VPN policy forces all traffic to be routed over internet > > The reasons behind this are supposedly that the company must track all > information for legal purposes. > > So I'm curious - do companies like Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel > have policies like this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.