What’s common sense when it comes to minimising the risk of employees spreading critical information to rivalling companies? As of today, it’s clear that not even the US government and military can be sure that their data stays safely within their doors. Thereby I understand that my question probably instead should be written as “What is common sense to make it harder for employees to spread business critical information?” If anyone would want to spread [...]

Given the appropriate security policies, disclaimers, etc. by the employer, admins typically need tools to record and report on how the internet connection is being used by its employees. In the past, I’ve relied on my firewall appliance to log the most viewed domain names. Very rudimentary stuff. It was difficult to track down who visited siteAbc123.com in a domain of 50+ computers. The egregious traffic was really what we were after. If the requirements [...]

My manager was wondering if I could monitor employees activity such as Internet history, email messages (email hosted externally) and other applications like LimeWire and Solitaire. I am managing Windows Domain (2k8). I prefer a freeware monitor if possible. You should also ask the question “Why?” If you want to block inappropriate sites in the workplace = a web filter. If you want to prioritise bandwidth for commercial purposes = traffic shaping. If you want [...]

I’m looking for a solution to organize the work shifts of a department like this: 15 employees with each has a different number of hours to work Monday-Friday, 6:00-22:00 always one or more employees on shift overlapping shifts self-organization: employees plan their shifts on their own must have: runs on linux open source webinterface ability to change someone else’s shifts nice to have: user authentication against radius, samba or imap versioning (see who changed something) [...]