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25% Of Workers Ignore Internet Use Policies


A couple of days ago Asylum reported...

"25 Percent of Office Workers Are Looking at Internet Porn

One in four office employees accessed pornography during the workday in October, according to Neilsen Online.

This figure is up about 10 percent from last October, and now more people are clicking on adult Web sites between nine and five than during any other time of the day."


Most organizations have policies against this type of Internet access, so why aren't the policies being enforced?

Allowing workers to visit these sites is similar to allowing real-life access...these sites can give your network all sorts of viruses, malware, spyware, and other nasty electronic bugs.

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on December 3, 2008 6:33 PM |

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.