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Derek Martin wrote: > Everyone here knows that, regardless of who owns the computing > resources, etc., people who are at work receive personal, sometimes > very private, e-mail at work. If someone else is reviewing your file > attachments, potentially serious problems could result. Such > attachments could conceivably contain wage information, medical > information, job offers, confidential business details, etc. Having > attachments reviewed by persons other than the intended recipient > opens up a whole messy can of law-suit worms. Grant, IANALB - I'll amplify Derek's and Jerry's comments: run this by the legal staff before proceeding. Above all, don't assume that employees can give permission for monitoring: some communications are priviledged no matter what you get an employee to agree to. As others pointed out, this sounds like it'll cost a lot. I'd suggest starting out small, by having auto-updates for Service Packs and antivirus definitions, mandatory sweeps of machines, and (depending on the desk/laptop OS) locking down the M$ Options to prevent macros from running. Oh, and NO open shares, at any time, for any reason. Bill, who is graduating from W2K security class this week.
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