CanReef At Work?

[Aquattro]

I'm surprised at the number of "monitored" responses. Is this fact, or do you think "they" are watching? We have an Internet usage policy, but nobody actually monitors anything!!

[Ruth]

My understanding is we have an internet useage policy with the ability to monitor and that certain sites will set off alarms or something to alert big brother that you are into the nasty sites.

[Johnny Reefer]

Originally Posted by Ruth

My understanding is we have an internet useage policy with the ability to monitor and that certain sites will set off alarms or something to alert big brother that you are into the nasty sites.

That could be how ours works too. But then, I'm really not sure how they monitor it. It's probably a combination of methods. Alarms, hands on, .... I mean there are soooooooo many websites. How do you set an alert alarm to all the nastys?

Cheers,

[Johnny Reefer]

Given the results, so far, I'd better get with it and start posting at work!

Cheers,

[Murminator]

All..... day...... long

[Johnny Reefer]

Originally Posted by reef_raf

I'm surprised at the number of "monitored" responses. Is this fact, or do you think "they" are watching? We have an Internet usage policy, but nobody actually monitors anything!!

My employer has a usage policy as well. And yes, they do monitor it. Not like every single mouse click per se, but they do perform random checks to a certain %. And they have been known to come across "infringements". But I think most "infringements" are a result of ignorance in terms of being unaware of the policy. (Even though they should be).

Cheers,

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by reef_raf

I'm surprised at the number of "monitored" responses. Is this fact, or do you think "they" are watching? We have an Internet usage policy, but nobody actually monitors anything!!

we actualy get inspected on a regular basis as to what sites have been visited. there is a log file generated every night and they run through sniffers and then randomly they are checked by actual humans.

Steve

[Aquattro]

Steve, I believe the military would be an exception rather than the rule. We also run filters that will give red screens if inappropriate sites are visited, but logs are never checked.

[Samw]

Originally Posted by reef_raf

I'm surprised at the number of "monitored" responses. Is this fact, or do you think "they" are watching? We have an Internet usage policy, but nobody actually monitors anything!!

For me, it doesn't have to be actively monitored (having a guy sit there watching data movement) to be considered monitored. Just having your data go through a proxy server and data being logged alone to me is considered monitored. In other words, the company could simply run scripts at any time to analyze your usage. The reason they are logging data and making you run through a proxy server or firewall means that they want to find out which sites you are visiting and block selected sites. So I think that's good enough for a definition of monitored. And for the record, people that I know within my company (not me) have been warned before about visiting certain sites.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

I work on my computer at home so I monitor myself. I'm a bad boy. On canreef & BCA all the time. Bad Anthony or as cindyt would say, "Bad hand-toe-knee".

My wife keeps asking how I get all my work done when I'm surfin fish-sites?

Anthony