[Gllug] The total cost of ownership to Ealing Council

[James Laver]

On 7 Sep 2009, at 09:29, Tethys wrote:
>
> No, it doesn't. It all depends on the environment. In my case,
> it was a financial institution, where there was no legitimate
> business reason for taking data offsite on a USB stick, or for
> bringing it in on one from outside. If people wanted to transfer
> data between themselves at work, we provided several ways of
> doing that.

A previous client had the encrypted USB pens thing. They also provided  
means of getting files around, which is to say email. Unfortunately  
the email limits were so harsh that ultimately they ended up zipping  
the file and splitting it into multiple archives. Except the one team  
whose leader kicked back and refused to allow the team notebooks to be  
'secured', they had no problem with file transfer.

If people resent the restrictions, you have to ask why, and generally  
it's that no valid alternative has been provided. Seeing people use  
rapidshare to send files because of IT restrictions is just silly.

--James
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