Security mindsets of very small businesses and residential clients
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@Carnival-Boy I would say the best thing that comes out of posts like this is opinions and work flow others use.
I am not always right, and as the owner I would rather be a dictator when it comes to security, but as it has been pointed out, I could be hampering businesses from working which could cause the business to no longer need my services. I don't want to become the IT person that my clients always tells me about, the rude, obnoxious and overbearing person who points out all the stupid things people do in the office. I believe I will let my blog do that.
Also if O365 is much more secure, I am going to be pushing it a lot more.
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@technobabble said:
Also if O365 is much more secure, I am going to be pushing it a lot more.
Any exchange server can have opportunistic TLS enabled, just have to do it. If you use Postini/Google Apps, it is not turned on there by default, but is very easy to turn on.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I've written a bit on the evils of SMS.
Link? I definitely don't understand the risks.
Another problem I have with using e-mail for confidential communication is the annoying habit of some users to set-up rules to forward all of their work e-mail to their personal e-mail. That's usually their personal Hotmail e-mail that uses the password "password".
That's one of the many reasons that it's important for companies to have and enforce policies that prohibit employees from using their personal email for work purposes.
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How do you enforce something like that?
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@Carnival-Boy said:
How do you enforce something like that?
You make it policy. If they are caught, then you discipline them per the policy.
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@JaredBusch said:
. If they are caught, then you discipline them per the policy.
That's HR's function, I try not to get involved.
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just say no to residential clients
there are a bagillion folks round here (college town) doing laptop repair for right next to nothing. little yard signs up everywhere. heck just say no to some tiny companies too -
@Carnival-Boy said:
@JaredBusch said:
. If they are caught, then you discipline them per the policy.>
That's HR's function, I try not to get involved.
See you answered your own question then. You let HR enforce it.
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I was thinking more about controlling rules in Exchange. If HR need to be involved to get something enforced then I may as well forget it.
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@alexntg said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I've written a bit on the evils of SMS.
Link? I definitely don't understand the risks.
Another problem I have with using e-mail for confidential communication is the annoying habit of some users to set-up rules to forward all of their work e-mail to their personal e-mail. That's usually their personal Hotmail e-mail that uses the password "password".
That's one of the many reasons that it's important for companies to have and enforce policies that prohibit employees from using their personal email for work purposes.
Sure. But you'd want similar policies to keep them from using SMS too. If one is okay, the other might as well be.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I was thinking more about controlling rules in Exchange. If HR need to be involved to get something enforced then I may as well forget it.
Then why the concern? If management and HR think it doesn't matter then it should definitely not concern you. Not IT's place to make those kinds if calls.
