network monitoring

[Gregory Machin]

On 6/6/07, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez <manuel at todo-linux.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 June 2007 13:16:34 Andy Green wrote:
> >
> > Yep no doubt.  But what does it mean?  It's now a reasonable duty
> > expected of the company to read all the employee traffic and you are
> > negligent if you're not doing it?  Don't worry it's just a rhetorical
> > question.
> >
>
> Nope, from my point of view.
> As I said in a previus email, it's worthless to keep an eye on all the traffic
> from the employees to the Internet.
> It's much better to set up some filters such as proxys or firewall rules, bye
> bye to the conflictive traffic, like p2p, IM...
> The same with the proxy and websites
>
> Much more practical, IMHO
>
> Cheers
> Manuel
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I'd agree this that, to manage / monitor all the data flows, of non
buisness critical traffic is a waist of time, rather just put a block
all, traffic and allow only buisness critical traffic, eg then use
proxy applications with filtering to narrow down the users access
further..
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Gregory Machin
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