White Papers for Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)

E-Policy Best Practices Guide

St. Bernard Software

Whether your organization is a publicly traded multinational corporation, a mid-sized privately held operation, or a small family-owned business, any time you allow employees access to your computer systems and authorize their use of the Internet, email and instant messaging (IM), you put your organization’s assets, future, and reputation at risk. Employees’ accidental misuse (and intentional abuse) of the Internet, peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, email and IM can create potentially costly and time-consuming legal, regulatory, security and productivity headaches for employers.Newsworthy computer gaffes have triggered everything from tumbling stock prices to six-figure regulatory fines to billion-dollar legal settlements to media feeding frenzies. The best advice: manage your organization’s electronic liabilities today or risk disaster tomorrow.

E-Policy Fact: When it comes to inappropriate computer use, employers are primarily concerned about inappropriate Web surfing, with 76% monitoring workers’ Website connections. Fully 65% of organizations use a solution like iPrism from St. Bernard, www.stbernard.com, to block access to inappropriate Websites. Source: 2005 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey from American Management Association and The ePolicy Institute.

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