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Young Employees Pose Increasing Risk to Networks
buzzardsbay writes "Baseline is reporting on an upcoming survey from Symantec and Applied Research-West that confirms many suspicions about the generation gap in the workplace, namely that younger workers will use your corporate network to run most any device, technology or social networking software they can get their hands on. Dubbed "Millenials," these workers born after 1980 are nearly twice as likely to use cell phones and PDAs at work, and half admit to installing unauthorized software on their employer's computers. On the upside, the Millenials are more security aware than their older co-workers."
You sound bitter that you have to start at the bottom like everyone else. Then again, maybe that is the problem some of us have with your generation.
They're also less likely to call IT with problems like "I'm trying to make an Internet on my desktop but I can't get the file to program."
I don't care why you're posting AC
Of course you can, their routing number is 666, but you still run into the problem of getting the account number of whoever you are sending the money to. Also the dollar is incredibly weak against souls right now, so it's pretty expensive.
"They always think they know better, they have a massive attitude, and a huge superiority complex."
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What about people, like me, born IN 1980. Should I maintain a chip on my shoulder or a smug sense of my own superiority? Should I install unauthorised software or not? AAARGH! The duality is tearing me apart...
I work for a certain convergent outsourcing company which converges with converging technologies to provide a ... okay I've taken this too far: I work for Convergys. Every user on their network is an administrator. Every. Single. One. We have 1200 or so employees at my site alone, and we've got over 70 sites in the US.
They use group policy security to control the network, but you wouldn't believe how little thought goes into it. We had a new team form to provide support for a certain now-defunct pacific-coast city's municipal wifi. Because supporting an internet service sometimes requires tools such as ping/tracert/whatever -- they gave us a command prompt. But because they didn't want us having all kinds of access, what they really gave us was a shortcut to a batch file, which started with a choice prompt, allowing you to 'paste' so-to-speak, several commands, such as it would not let you have a blank prompt. It would always have a command, such as C:\>ping .
Well apparently no one told them that you can concatenate commands. We soon discovered we could just use the batch file to C:\>ping google.com & start cmd and have an unrestricted command prompt. And since we're all administrators, we can use MMC, and control every other part of our access.
I've since moved past my call-taking days, but I still work for them as an analyst. Of course they still won't let me provide any kind of network security device.