Posted on 11/02/2011 4:19:29 PM PDT by Swordmaker
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
Sure. Whatever.
My IT staff prefers ‘em....
Any company that handles privileged customer information that could be used for identity theft and lets employee owned compters onto it's network is eventually going to pay dearly for it.
Bah hah ahah
Gee most M$ users want to be free to do all the power stuff, yet you would bind them down. How Steve of you.
How about a compromise - I'll let them do all the "power stuff", but they can only do it with your personal information.
This really about the VPs that bring thier employee owned iPads into work and create all sorts of new attack vectors for hackers. Truth - Mac OWNERS are more susceptible to social engineering attacks because they falsly think that Mac’s are safer than PCs ... ducking for cover now that I made myself a target for the Apple hit squad!
MAC Ping!
As a rule I would say that employee-owned computers -- OF ANY TYPE -- do not belong on a corporate network. I've maintained that rule on the corporate network I administer and it has worked out well.
The cases where an employee has taken their company-issued (Windows) computer home and let their kids play on it (against the rules) have been awful -- they bring it back in and it's filthy (software-wise) and causes problems.
I think Macs can be just as productive in general, sometimes more so and sometimes less so, than Windows PCs. Depends on what you have to do with the computer. But there's no justification or excuse for letting uncontrolled machines on a corporate network, regardless of operating system.
REAL TRUTH: You can't name a single piece of hackware that can run on a Mac -- and then infect a PC.
MY Brother works as a regional director for the Big X corp.They started accommodating macs about 7 years ago.He came to us for a crash course on them...we told him double or single click....LOL
You would be wrong about that but don’t let facts get in the way of your fantasy....
“Stand in the way and you will eventually get run over,” Forrester says.
It was that way for PCs in the early years. I designed and coded for mainframes and some of the managers would sneak PCs into their departments and start doing their own thing. The IT dept was livid when they found these, but the managers would not be suppressed - it was just too easy for the users to get what they needed with the PCs.
I think if employees want to use Macs, then there should be some accommodations made for them with company-provided machines and specific terms of use.
My own company has both Macs and PCs, and we are starting to incorporate iPads into the workflow for those who are often on the road.
“Any company that handles privileged customer information that could be used for identity theft and lets employee owned compters onto it’s network is eventually going to pay dearly for it.”
A better approach is:
“Any company that handles privileged customer information that doesn’t properly segregate it at the network level is eventually going to pay dearly for it.”
USB drives are far more ubiquitous than Macs. Also, the vast majority of positions at almost all companies requires no access to such information.
Active Directory Group Policy can disable the use of USB drives on domain-joined Windows computers, and prevent network access by non-domain joined computers. Macs cannot be joined to an Active Directory network, or be controlled by AD Group Policy.
As far as whether a "position" requires access to the information, once non-secured computers are allowed onto the network then you're faced with trying to control who can and cannot use those computers.
If you have that kind of information on your network, there is no rationializing allowing employees to access that data from a non-corporate computer as being anything but very bad practice.
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