How To Tame the Social Network At Work

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Dan Tynan provides an in-depth report on how IT can tame social networking at work without shutting the organization off to the kinds of business opportunities today's social networks present. 'They're a productivity sink and a bandwidth suck. They're a vector for malware and a gift for corporate spies. They're a data spill just waiting to happen. And like it or not, they're already inside your enterprise,' Tynan writes. 'Most companies are in denial about how much their employees are using social nets, as well as what they can do to stop it.' Worse, many are still balking at the fact that having a presence on social networks is rapidly becoming a requirement for doing business. Strict commonsense policies, next-generation firewalls, data leak prevention software — all can decrease your company's exposure to the risks inherent in social networking while still enabling your company to solve problems, burnish its public image, recruit top talent, and generate ideas through social networks."

hosts file

[Anonymous Coward]

add
127.0.0.2 www.facebook.com
to
c:\windows\System32\drivers\hosts

Ha! Try and stop me!

[Nursie]

I browse facebook via an encrypted tunnel to a private server!

So it probably just looks like I'm funnelling in and out company secrets or something...

do what at work now?

[Anonymous Coward]

... as I sit at work reading about how to tame social networks at work ...

Re:Social Icon

[StripedCow]

How about an image of somebody taking a photo of them self.

I like that idea. Mod parent up!

And while we're at it, let's change the Apple icon into something more appropriate, and in line with the M$ icon.

Resistance is Futile

[digitaldc]

"They're a vector for malware and a gift for corporate spies. They're a DATA spill just waiting to happen. And like it or not, they're already inside your enterprise"

Wait, are we talking about social networking here? or the Borg invasion from 'Star Trek: First Contact?'

Re:what firewall?

[gblackwo]

Unemployment? That usually does the trick.

Re:Social Icon

[Anonymous Coward]

great troll, A+++++, would bite again

Re:Social Icon

[Reilaos]

How about a man with a megaphone screaming at a canyon?

Or a picture of someone taking a picture of someone taking a photo of their self?

Re:Resistance is Futile

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, don't you worry. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our friend list.

Re:what firewall?

[Monkeedude1212]

That depends on what kind of Droid he has. Like if he has an R2 unit, that thing'll just plug right into the wall socket and edit the Employee Database so he is still on a paycheck!

They allow facebook because they WANT to spy

[mathmathrevolution]

I am convinced that my company decided to allow Facebook because they wanted direct access to people's personal lives and if you use Facebook over the network you give that to them. They can monitor and store every interaction with FB, and nosy managers can get access to this whenever they want. If they didn't let people access FB over their network, then they couldn't legally invade their privacy.