Should Companies Monitor Their Employees' Social Media? In recent years people have had their lives turned upside down over social media comments, videos, or pictures. Imagine this: A group of friends on vacation and have a good time. They laugh, drink, and take pictures with their cell phones. One of these pictures shows a woman holding a cocktail in each hand and smiling. One of her friends posts this picture on Facebook; her friends share the image. Unfortunately, the woman holding the cocktails
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I. Monitoring of company-owned systems 1. Employee personal use of company-provided communications systems is subject to monitoring at all times. Employees will have no expectation of privacy when using company-owned systems. The following paragraphs offer additional guidance, freedoms of use, and restrictions. a. Computers. The primary use of company-owned computers is to accomplish company-related business. All information sent from, received to, or stored on company computers is subject
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Now days, wireless communication and devices are very flexible, convenient, and easy to use everywhere. With the introduction of wireless local area network (WLAN) many users find it very flexible to move laptops from one place to another within the office while maintaining connectivity with the network, sharing data and applications with network system and other users with compatible devices without been tied to printer cables and other peripheral device connection. This is very important in a
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Date: 01/22/2014 Network Management System Student: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Professor: xxxxxx Course: Network 420 DEVRY UNIVERSITY Brief Introduction Network management systems have to be geared toward the work flow of the organization in which they will be utilized and be careful with remote external attack, as many hackers usually aim there attack at service offered to the public. Which means Network management systems department must provide protection to the business' data, with a smooth
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of rapid communications. Organizations might want to limit how employee’s uses email during work hours because of the personal use. Instead of using work hours sending out work related emails or checking work related emails to conduct business, employees are sending out personal emails to friends, family, maybe even other coworkers but are not work related. In order for that to cease, an organization will have to limit the personal use and to only enforce work related use emails to conduct business
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AWARENESS AND TRAINING POLICY AND PROCEDURES 18 6.1 SECURITY TRAINING 19 7. AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY POLICY AND PROCEDURES 19 7.1 AUDITABLE EVENTS 19 7.2 CONTENT OF AUDIT RECORDS 20 7.3 AUDIT STORAGE CAPACITY 20 7.4 AUDIT MONITORING, ANALYSIS, AND REPORTING 20 7.5 TIME STAMPS 21
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own risk to use their phones to make calls. Also while working on the computers at work they were able to see whatever I saw. Since the employer owns the computer network and the computers, he or she is free to use them to monitor employees. Employees are given some protection from computer and other forms of electronic monitoring under certain circumstances. As far as email goes there are also basically no restrictions to what an employer can do. If an electronic mail (e-mail) system is used
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Introduction: Information security continuous monitoring (ISCM) is defined as maintaining ongoing awareness of information security, vulnerabilities, and threats to support organizational risk management decisions. This publication specifically addresses assessment and analysis of security control effectiveness and of organizational security status in accordance with organizational risk tolerance. Security control effectiveness is measured by correctness of implementation and by how adequately the
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protection suite provided backup utility, Symantec Backup Exec. There are two types of backup for this network. The first is a digital tape drive backup that is located on site for intermediate recovery based on the disaster conditions. The second backup is a mirror backup on a bank of servers at an external site to ensure the security of the data in the case of total disaster of the network site. b. Backup Schedule? The backup schedule will be determined by the importance of the information
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facilitate social networks in my organization. “Links to friends and work partners can provide the assistance and social support necessary for high performance.” (Mehra, 2001) Studies have shown by connecting employees socially work performance goes up. Additionally, I would fund programs on self-awareness especially the concept of self-monitoring. High and low self-monitoring behavior has a direct correlation to workplace success. Educating my staff to recognize and practice high self-monitoring behavior
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