[Gllug] How do they manage it? (IT recruitment agencies)

[Rich Walker]

In message <018301c121ae$e9f4df90$390a0a0a at veriouk>
          "will" <will at hellacool.co.uk> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Bailey" <jim at lateral.net>
> To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 3:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] How do they manage it? (IT recruitment agencies)
> 
> 
> >On Friday, August 10, 2001, at 02:36 PM, Sean Burlington wrote:
> >
> > Anti virus software is expensive - and if you take precautions -
> > unnecassary
> >
> >Got Sophos installed at work for under £20 a year per machine plus as
> >part of the deal we get to put it on our home PCs, network in my case at
> >home.  Are you 100% alert 100% of the time?
> 
> It probably costs more than £20 to train people not to open dodgy files and
> stuff, like the time one of our employees opened the kournikova email
> because he 'just wanted to see what it was' even though everyone had been
> told not to and why.

Yeah, or the "Now Dave, this is probably a virus. Let's see: I'll
just click on it ... <whirr> Yes, I think that was a virus. Whoops."
problem. 

But really, if you have any sort of organisation where you are, then
either you operate as a formal company with contracts of employment
with your staff, or you operate as a cohesive organisation of peers
working in a given problem domain.

In the latter case, if someone screws the system by, for example,
opening a well-known virus, or installing Doze, or something, then
you mentally downgrade your competence counter for them, and get
them to fix the problem. This usually educates them much better than
just using a clue stick.

In the former case, you get the employment contract to contain
specific details of "The IT people will issue virus warnings from
time to time. You are expected to keep up to date with these.
Running a virus that is on the virus warning list (and hence
avoidable) is a breach of your employment contract, and XXX
penalties result".

If you can't make a case for one or  the other of these approaches
with your management, then you probably need new management :> (And
yes, I have seen the employees of a company replace the management.
It's just not very common.)


cheers,Rich.


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