I just wanna give the contra on this matter : if we allow Social Network at all time - network traffic will be high and might be disturb other services that use it
if we block social network at all time - staff will bring their own netbook and use 3g broadband to surf the social network if we block social network at certain time - staff might use the certain (after office hour) to surf the social network and claim for OT... -- Muzamir bin Mokhtar, Pegawai Teknologi Maklumat (F44) Unit Operasi Bahagian Teknologi Maklumat Pej SUK Pahang TEL : 095129424/425 FAX : 095163490 http://muzzoshah.blogspot.com http://muzzotechspot.blogspot.com ----- Message from [email protected] --------- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:20:56 +0800 From: BRIAN RITCHIE <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Owasp-Malaysia] Social network sites: Block or not? To: David Fetter <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] > I am gonna echo David on this. Trust me, if you have me as an employee and > you block Twitter/FB, I'll find a way through and probably puncture more > holes in your infra. I'd rather you allocate certain hours/time limits per > day for stuff like this like Creative Malaysia ( Sound system) does. Very > interesting approach. > > -BRIAN RITCHIE > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:17 PM, David Fetter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:21:41PM -0500, Mohd Fazli Azran wrote: >> > Hi guy!!, >> > >> > Long time not write something for your. Just wanna to share about >> > this article. It about *"Should companies block Facebook, Twitter >> > and LinkedIn?" . *Should your open or block for Social network. It >> > up to you guy. On this article give some opinion. >> > >> > >> www.networkworld.com/community/tech-debate-block-social-networks?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2010-07-13 >> >> Whatever benefit you imagine you might derive from treating your >> employees like children, you will lose all of it and more because they >> resent your heavy-handed tactics. You'll have created attackers >> inside your trust boundary, and nothing's quite as nasty as that, from >> every security perspective. >> >> If you want to make a policy about which sites people visit, making >> that policy written, clear, in advance, and with reasons enunciated >> and questionable is *much* more effective than encouraging your >> employees to punch you (and your firewalls, etc.) when you establish >> silly and arbitrary network outages. Trying to block ports and IPs is >> stupid, wasteful, counter-productive, and, of course, ineffective. >> >> That said, I find multiple threats and attack vectors from Facebook >> itself, which acts pretty much an attacker when it comes to anything a >> Facebook user ever connects to. In the process of violating their >> users' privacy, something they have an extensive track record of doing >> as a matter of routine, they violate most access control policies. >> >> Stated that way, it's much easier to convince people that Facebook is >> a problem. >> >> Cheers, >> David. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Mohd Fazli Azran >> > OWASP Malaysia Chapter Leader >> > [image: OWASP Malaysia] <http://www.owasp.org/Malaysia> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Owasp-Malaysia mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia >> > >> > OWASP Malaysia Wiki >> > http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia >> > >> > OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook >> > http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420 >> >> >> -- >> David Fetter <[email protected]> http://fetter.org/ >> Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter >> Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [email protected] >> iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics >> >> Remember to vote! >> Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate >> _______________________________________________ >> Owasp-Malaysia mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia >> >> OWASP Malaysia Wiki >> http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia >> >> OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook >> http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420 >> > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > MySpamGuard State Government of Pahang, Malaysia and is believed to > be clean. > > ----- End message from [email protected] ----- ---------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: This e-mail and the attachment is from State Government of Pahang, Malaysia. 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