Necessity of an Acceptable Internet Use Policy for Business William E. Boyle Point Park University Abstract This paper will argue that an Acceptable Internet Use Policy, combined with effective network monitoring and policy enforcement is an essential requirement for businesses to protect business assets and resources. It discusses the potential loss to business from employee misuse of internet access and the danger from external sources. Necessity of an Acceptable Internet Use Policy
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Richman Investments holds requirements for the usage of the company network including filtering policies for network traffic through an AUP. Acceptable use policy (AUP) would start with the User Domain. The user domain is the employee within an organization who is granted access to the information system for the organization. There are roles and tasks, responsibility, and accountability that go into an acceptable use policy for the user domain. Within the user domain, access to the LAN to WAN, web
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Employee Internet Use Monitoring and Filtering Policy Created by or for the SANS Institute. Feel free to modify or use for your organization. If you have a policy to contribute, please send e-mail to stephen@sans.edu 1.0 Purpose The purpose of this policy is to define standards for systems that monitor and limit web use from any host within 's network. These standards are designed to ensure employees use the Internet in a safe and responsible manner, and ensure that employee web use can be
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new to people. It is commonly known that the employees are being monitored by the leader or boss. When computers and the Internet became prevalent, advanced surveillance increased. There are many employees monitoring software provided for employers to watch over employees' computers. The company administrators can monitor and supervise all of their employee computers including e-mails, chats, screens and even phone calls from time to time. Employees have few if any rights when it comes to electronic
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Monitoring Employees on Networks LC Johnson IT/205 June 06, 2012 Monitoring Employees on Networks When a person goes to work for an individual or company, they make an agreement to give his or her attention to the task or requirement of that job. Under that agreement, many say that anything less than that agreement is “stealing”. The topic of monitoring employees’ use of the internet for personal use on the job is a relatively important topic especially to the employers. This is of
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1.0 Statement of policy Scope and applicability This employee monitoring policy is to define standards for our property, including but not limited to e-mail, telephone (company cellular and landline), and the use of the Internet, that monitors use of technology within our company sectors. To ensure that our property, information, and network are used in a responsible and safe atmosphere, these standards have been designed and reviewed for employee implementation. This will support the integrity
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not be all possible due to electronic Surveillance . Employees are becoming increasingly concerned about their privacy as their employers are monitoring them electronically more closely than ever before. Still employees expect to have privacy at the lunch area, bathrooms and lockers. Besides those places the employee has little or almost no privacy within the company. Electronic monitoring allows an employer to observe what employees do on the job and review employee communications, including
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Surveillance of Employees Brent Schenkel Roy Basile, J.D LEG 500 October 23, 2011 Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Obviously, employee privacy should not be an issue when it comes to a restroom or a locker room facility. This would invade personal privacy and has been upheld by numerous cases in a court of law. But any other parts of the grounds of the company are considered public areas and can have surveillance monitoring. Any areas where
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Richman has 5000 employees throughout the main office and several branch offices, this document dictates research solutions and details the appropriate access controls including policies, standards, and procedures that define who users are, what they can do, which resources they can access, and which operations they can perform on a system. | Final Project I. Richman Internet Infrastructure Security Management Upgrade A. Purpose Based on the premises that Richman has 5000 employees throughout the
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communicate with employees as well as research the Internet for information related to the job, one would expect for certain information to remain private; however, it does not occur like this all the time. Businesses have in place policies where they have the right to observed employees activities during job. While it is important for employees to be mindful of their companies’ policies, it is more important to know that employers have the responsibility to ensure that their employees have been properly
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