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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > > I wonder about the gray area of staff's personal computers used on the > network. A client of mine allows their staff to bring in their own > laptops and use them on the network. Now personally I'd say this should > be a no-no unless the computers are verified that they are secure and up > to date with things like OS updates, AV updates (if they're Windows > machines which they generally are) and that the software is licensed. This would actually be one way to make things "grey". Another way would be if the employer was providing software to run on those computers. > This company doesn't seem to think about that though despite me > protesting about it (and finding one of the staff had malware on their > laptop). When I was working at GCap Media there was a strict policy of > not allowing any machine which wasn't company owned on the network A company owned machine where it is possible for the end user to add extra software is a potential problem here. With Windows laptops appearing to be the most likely such situation. What's to stop a disgruntled employee themselves putting extra software in places it shouldn't be? > (luckily they were a bit more lenient about Linux as some of the > networking team ran Ubuntu on their company notebooks). > > Anyway to get to the point, I'd be interested to know if unlicensed > software on a staff members personal machine counts if it's been used on > a company network. So long as the company takes NO interest in the software on the machine it shouldn't be any more their problem than if an employee has an untaxed, uninsured and unMOTed car in the staff car park. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJSKs9soRLMhsZpFcRAi7CAJ9dMGfsGDTwDO9AcDKEnb7fMQWPrwCeKV7Y kCcDQxD8ZGH9eI+Kd0pUEHk= =ZUTt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html