How do I stop innapropriate web surfing?
One of the biggest concerns for corporations today is employees surfing “innapropriate” web sites. To some extent, companies are worried about employees wasting company time on the Internet, and to another extent, companies are worried about legal liability, such as when an employee surfs p-orn sites that causes a sexual harassment lawsuit. However, companies do not like being in the position of being “big brother”. Rules against inappropriate surfing inevitably lead to grey areas (for example: Playboy.com recently had an article on computer security, which an employee could easily have stumbled across while doing a legitimate search on the web). Intrusion detection systems, firewalls, proxy servers, and sniffing programs can be configured to log all web surfing traffic to log files, including who accessed which websites. Most companies already have these logs, but few make use of this information. Network technicians do not want to take on the role of HR and prosecute people. (In many
