Comments on: This site does not comply with our Global IT Security Policy. If you have a valid business reason for requiring access to this site please contact your IT department. http://joelyrighteous.com/2009/06/27/this-site-does-not-comply-with-our-global-it-security-policy-if-you-have-a-valid-business-reason-for-requiring-access-to-this-site-please-contact-your-it-department/ ...it's a digital world Fri, 13 May 2011 06:00:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tiphereth http://joelyrighteous.com/2009/06/27/this-site-does-not-comply-with-our-global-it-security-policy-if-you-have-a-valid-business-reason-for-requiring-access-to-this-site-please-contact-your-it-department/#comment-219 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:02:36 +0000 http://joelyrighteous.com/?p=291#comment-219 The last time I had one of those “netnanny” monitor messages was when I was consulting in the comms department for a big 4 bank. They were particularly paranoid – needless to say all webmail was banned, along with a huge number of general sites.

Companies who have policies such as these have low trust of their employees (regardless of IT/internet policies that are part of the employees contract) and tend to behave in a paternalistic way. These companies will be the last to embrace social media marketing, and they are probably the same ones that have banned Facebook/MySpace access in the workplace because they are scared that no-one’s going to be doing any work.

These types of companies also define “work” very narrowly, the IT Security is an excuse to filter what people are looking at and behave like Big Brother without actually admitting to it.

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