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Sunday, December 20th, 2009
How will it help you?
Nowadays many employees spend a lot of time off-site: on the road, in aeroplanes and many work from home.
Whilst working off-site is a way to offer more flexibility and is an effective tool to increase productivity, it can expose the company to new threats:
increased likelihood of ...
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Sunday, December 20th, 2009
How will it help you?
A large portion of most company business is conducted with desktop computers, laptop computers, personal digital assistants and smart phones ("personal computers") and related equipment (such as memory sticks and CD writers), all of which are invariably owned by the company. Users are given access ...
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Sunday, December 20th, 2009
How will it help you?
The provision of Internet access exposes your company to various risks:
Downloading of offensive material (i.e. material which is defamatory, abusive, obscene, sexually oriented, pornographic, intimidating, threatening, racially offensive or discriminatory);
Downloading large files (which impacts on network or diskstorage capacity)
Downloading software illegally (which is unlicensed and thus ...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
How will it help you?
It will protect the organisation in the following ways:
reduce potential legal liability in respect of claims by employees or third parties;
protect proprietary or confidential business information from unauthorised access or disclosure to third parties;
prevent losses (e.g. of data and other proprietary information), errors, and mistakes
educate employees ...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Online Legal offers 2 types of policies:
HR polices; and
Information security policies.
Both are a "species" of policy found within an organization. Others include Finance Policies and "IT Policies".
At a high level, information security policies focus on managing and protecting data, whereas IT Policies generally tend to focus on the supporting processes ...
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