Right, because I'm sure the upper management of multiple companies in these industries NEVER thought of regulations when they approved this. Since you are so much smarter than all of them you should offer to sell them your consulting services.
I've seen many virus outbreaks at companies where I have worked. ALL were caused by corporate-owned and managed equipment and Microsoft software exclusively.
I love it when IT management thinks that devices are inherently secure just because they supplied them.
Only in your wildest IT Nerd dreams could you punish a user severely just because they found a way to check their GMail account from "your" network. Try having the VP of Sales fired for that. Even if he does cause a data breach, he'll just make sure you get blamed for that because he is far more skilled in organizational politics then you could ever be.
Bla bla bla, we've heard it all. People said the same thing about PCs in the enterprise in the early 80s. Sure, some of the problems the "IT High Priests" foretold did end up coming true, but the high priests lost the PC battle and overall PCs in the workplace were much more of a benefit than a hazard. Even if IT could no longer control everything with an iron fist.
The same battle is being replayed with smart phones and BYOD. And the IT High Priests will lose again.
Strike a BALANCE between APPROPRIATE security and usability, or your IT department will be outsourced.
So any disgruntled employee (or visitor) who wanted to sabotage your company and cost you dearly can do so just by cross-connecting an Ethernet cable? That's about as sophisticated as having a keypad entry on your front door with a passcode of 1234. Holy hell, I hope that IT manager was fired right after the dumb employee.
Beancounters can enforce legitimate policy all they want, but imagine if they try to make people fill out a 3 page form just to get a new box of paperclips. The head beancounter would get the box of clips thrown at the back of their head.
Emails, IMs and any other network traffic can be collected from the server, unless you're too fucking stupid to do that. People like you were no doubt railing against insecure PCs in the office the early 80s, and your side lost.
Idiots like you are the high priests the writer was complaining about. If you can't properly maintain an office network just because someone installed an "un-approved" mouse driver, then find a job more suitable to your skillset. As for support, try saying "we support the standard configuration - user-installed drivers are supported by the user". But its a lot more fun to bitch about users (the reason you have a job) then to find a common sense solution, isn't it?
Oakland is simply a violent city. A more heavy-handed police response was required. Seriously, police response to the Occupy protests has been VERY restrained and professional. If anything, they have not cracked down hard enough.
That's only for big businesses. The FBI doesn't give a shit about small un-clouted businesses. Be sure you know which one this company is before you expose them.
Recruiters are commission-only salespeople. Which means that basically anyone who wants the job is hired and only those who can do it successfully will end up earning enough to feed themselves. The bad ones find other lines of work before they starve. At least that's how it usually works.
Quality in general has never been a factor in offshore outsourcing. Only price. And usually no thought is given to the cost of buggy software until the problem blows up in someone's face.
When it comes to software patents there's no such thing as a clean-room implementation. Or more precisely, it would still get you sued. Patents on physical things only restrict a particular method of doing something. Software and business method patents cover the end result. Look at all of these smartphone patent trolls popping out of the woodwork. They aren't suing over the actual methodology - they're suing everyone that makes any kind of pocket device that performs computing, even if it was developed in a clean-room.
So look, but don't look so hard you'll actually find something.
But seriously, there is NO way to develop any software that is the slightest bit useful without violating someone's patent. Hell, we're probably all violating patents right now by transmitting "text for the purpose of public discussion - using a computer".
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Right, because I'm sure the upper management of multiple companies in these industries NEVER thought of regulations when they approved this. Since you are so much smarter than all of them you should offer to sell them your consulting services.
Yep, this is by far the best way to do it.
Laptops/tablets and even most desktop machines should not store sensitive company data, regardless of who owns or supplied the device.
I've seen many virus outbreaks at companies where I have worked. ALL were caused by corporate-owned and managed equipment and Microsoft software exclusively.
I love it when IT management thinks that devices are inherently secure just because they supplied them.
Only in your wildest IT Nerd dreams could you punish a user severely just because they found a way to check their GMail account from "your" network. Try having the VP of Sales fired for that. Even if he does cause a data breach, he'll just make sure you get blamed for that because he is far more skilled in organizational politics then you could ever be.
Bla bla bla, we've heard it all. People said the same thing about PCs in the enterprise in the early 80s. Sure, some of the problems the "IT High Priests" foretold did end up coming true, but the high priests lost the PC battle and overall PCs in the workplace were much more of a benefit than a hazard. Even if IT could no longer control everything with an iron fist.
The same battle is being replayed with smart phones and BYOD. And the IT High Priests will lose again.
Strike a BALANCE between APPROPRIATE security and usability, or your IT department will be outsourced.
Wow, the first intelligent and balanced comment on this board.
So any disgruntled employee (or visitor) who wanted to sabotage your company and cost you dearly can do so just by cross-connecting an Ethernet cable? That's about as sophisticated as having a keypad entry on your front door with a passcode of 1234. Holy hell, I hope that IT manager was fired right after the dumb employee.
But some IT plumbers would want to tell you what temperature your bathwater had to be. For safety, you know.
But don't you know, Firefox is a HUGE security hazard! And lets pretend for a second that corporate-approved IE is guaranteed to be safe.
Sometimes the best way to overturn an unreasonable policy is to enforce it to the max and make everyone suffer from it.
Beancounters can enforce legitimate policy all they want, but imagine if they try to make people fill out a 3 page form just to get a new box of paperclips. The head beancounter would get the box of clips thrown at the back of their head.
Emails, IMs and any other network traffic can be collected from the server, unless you're too fucking stupid to do that. People like you were no doubt railing against insecure PCs in the office the early 80s, and your side lost.
Let him have his unsecured laptop. Just make sure he fully owns it, and that includes owning any risk that goes along with it. Cover your ass.
Idiots like you are the high priests the writer was complaining about. If you can't properly maintain an office network just because someone installed an "un-approved" mouse driver, then find a job more suitable to your skillset. As for support, try saying "we support the standard configuration - user-installed drivers are supported by the user". But its a lot more fun to bitch about users (the reason you have a job) then to find a common sense solution, isn't it?
Oakland is simply a violent city. A more heavy-handed police response was required. Seriously, police response to the Occupy protests has been VERY restrained and professional. If anything, they have not cracked down hard enough.
That's only for big businesses. The FBI doesn't give a shit about small un-clouted businesses. Be sure you know which one this company is before you expose them.
You would almost think the U.S. government WANTS U.S. companies to relocate overseas.
Recruiters are commission-only salespeople. Which means that basically anyone who wants the job is hired and only those who can do it successfully will end up earning enough to feed themselves. The bad ones find other lines of work before they starve. At least that's how it usually works.
Quality in general has never been a factor in offshore outsourcing. Only price. And usually no thought is given to the cost of buggy software until the problem blows up in someone's face.
That theory is called Obamanomics.
Why are the police wasting taxpayer money participating in Apple's publicity stunt?
That's pretty much the trend in nearly ALL modern journalism: light on the details, heavy on the inflammatory rhetoric.
When it comes to software patents there's no such thing as a clean-room implementation. Or more precisely, it would still get you sued. Patents on physical things only restrict a particular method of doing something. Software and business method patents cover the end result. Look at all of these smartphone patent trolls popping out of the woodwork. They aren't suing over the actual methodology - they're suing everyone that makes any kind of pocket device that performs computing, even if it was developed in a clean-room.
So look, but don't look so hard you'll actually find something.
But seriously, there is NO way to develop any software that is the slightest bit useful without violating someone's patent. Hell, we're probably all violating patents right now by transmitting "text for the purpose of public discussion - using a computer".
Yes, but what do a bunch of mullahs know about packet inspection? Modern Islam does not exactly encourage education or progress.