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Grant Sewell wrote: > Mark Evans wrote: >> Rob Beard wrote: >> >>> 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 > If it is a company *owned* machine then the company ought to have > in-place enough user security measures (local-machine security policies, > group policies, strict group membership (possibly controlled by group > policy), etc) in place to prevent the average user from installing > software, and only allowing specific users to install software, and that > installation being recorded by automatic audit. <snip> Unfortunately though a lot of smaller companies don't have things like this in place. Rob -- 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