2008/11/10 Jack Coats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I agree. You need to get with management/hr and design an appropriate > WRITTEN policy. > They might want legal to draft it, so it will 'stand up' especially during > transition of cultures.
Indeed. Given that we have the luxury of a few lawyers here, I always run stuff like this past them. > I would suggest that folks be warned that if they want files saved, they > need to back them up because > only a 'standard system image' can be loaded. This keeps you from having to > try to copy things off possibly infested laptops. If they are company > related files, > the USERS should copy > them to the server. If a 'random audit' then finds 'inappropriate material' > on the server, then the > policy about that should be invoked (only company licensed materials are > allowed on servers). Current policy is that all data goes on the fileserver and not on local drives (that said, all laptops are whole disk encrypted in case they go "walkies", but that doesn't help us with actual data loss) , but human nature being what it is... a reminder is probably overdue and the special exception below for special users needs to be in place first. > And you only backup servers. Not hard thing to say because it's true :o) > If you have real 'road warriors' (sales droids that stay on the road 90% of > the time or so) then you > may need a 'special' policy for them that includes remote backup software > that only backs up a 'business' directory, other than that the image should > be 'standard', and > antivirus / spyware/ etc and > other security measures should be implemented by default. I'm thinking that's a pretty good idea. We do have a few people like that and the rest don't need to keep stuff locally, so we could ditch the awful desktop syncing software generally and get a few licenses for somethign a lot more suitable for the guys who are out of the office the majority of the time. Any suggestions on something Windowsy for syncing that's not hideous? > Just some thoughts I have had to help implement. ... It's all useful stuff; thanks! -- http://www.totkat.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
