Corporates wrestle with growing global hacker threat

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/887.html

 

[damian24]

So begging the question, what do you allow being installed on a corporate network...

I allow Acrobat reader, flash and Java because I can control the install and when updates take place using group policies and admin installs, as for ITunes, quicktime and the like, I;m still heavily against it due to the lack of centralised control.

So just how much do you give users before you have just too many new points of entry being created and make your network a crackers heaven?

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[gregmcc]

The article is stating the obvious. For a corporate you can't let your users run wild, visiting any web site they choose to and installing any app they want to.

A proxy with decent content filtering software and AV scanning will clean up most of the junk. Same with content scanning/AV/attachment blocking on emails and your pretty safe.

Users should not be able to install any app which is not approved and as mentioned above the apps should always be updated when new versions/patches are released for it.

 

[bobby.quinne]

So just how much do you give users before you have just too many new points of entry being created and make your network a crackers heaven?

Enough to do their work, I guess. Out of interest corporate mail solutions, are they limited to Lotus Notes? It seems to be the worst corporate mail application I have come across. Anyone come across any decent mail applications for large corporate use?

1 that tickles my fancy would be : http://www.atmail.com/

 

[gregmcc]

You talking about web mail solution, or just plain corporate mail. There's not too many places that run Lotus Notes, most run MS exchange. If you want to expose it to internet clients you can run OWA (Outlook web access) - a web front end for Outlook, ie. Hotmail. This is enabled on Exchange 2003.

 

[Tns]

So begging the question, what do you allow being installed on a corporate network...

Well on a domain they can't by default cause normal users don't have admin access. You can't restrict people to much, allow them a limited amount of internet access but make it know that this is monitored.

 

[bobby.quinne]

Notes

You talking about web mail solution, or just plain corporate mail. There's not too many places that run Lotus Notes, most run MS exchange. If you want to expose it to internet clients you can run OWA (Outlook web access) - a web front end for Outlook, ie. Hotmail. This is enabled on Exchange 2003.

Well most place that IBM have got their paws into seem to run it(JSE companies). Oddly enough the only place that I did work at where IBM was big vendor there did not run notes was VSP. Tho this might of changed in the last 3 years.