Pet Forum / Birds / Parrots / July 2007

>  It connects all of our inside systems to all of outside.
>
>  And it is the Internet ("public wire") traffic going in/out of Salomon
>  we are checking - not internal email.
>
>  The security rule for Internet traffic is "don't send anything you
>  wouldn't want to read about in tomorrow's newspaper".

> Salomon site.
>  
> All sites start out with the employment contract stating unequivocally
> that the systems are the company's and are to be used only for work
> purposes. And that they are subject to inspection. You signed it.
>  
> Salomon's goes further by stating the firm's computer systems may be
> audited and that they have the right to do so even if you have put
> personal information on the system.
>  
> After the first couple of months of security incidents at Salomon,
> they began issuing global email broadcasts saying that a new security
> package "Internet Risk Management: email facility" had been installed,
> and that Internet email traffic was actively being monitored.
>  
> They did so again and again.
>  
> I think they sent out a memo to everyone too.
>  
> Security incidents NEVER stopped.
>  
> Major viol