Effective Web policies: ensuring staff productivity and legal compliance

Overview

Employees increasingly expect to use the Internet at work for their own personal use in return for longer hours, working from home and interrupting vacations. This has a number of security, productivity, bandwidth and legal ramifications that require organizations to create and implement a Web usage policy that is backed up by effective Web filtering tools. This paper discusses how to create a policy that balances an organization's need for protection against an individual's expectations.