While more and more businesses
consider the
advantages and
disadvantages of granting Internet access to their employees, managers
are
taking note of the ever increasing abuse thereof. As a shared
gateway to the Internet via your web proxy server, the quality of service you
experience when browsing the Internet is influenced by where other
employees are browsing and what content they are downloading. No
longer are they simply downloading and swapping mp3 audio files but now
they are downloading 700Mb DVD films. According to the
Computer Crime and Security Survey conducted by the Computer
Security Institute and the FBI, as many as 78 percent of the respondents
said they had detected some form of employee abuse over the Internet,
including downloading pornography, accessing pirated software or
inappropriate use of e-mail. This finding is actually down from the
previous year, 2001, when 91 percent of employees were found to have
committed similar abuses. However, financial losses due to these
employee abuses actually increased, from $35 million (approx. ZAR250
million) to $50 million (approx ZAR357 million). Some examples of how resource accounting and management software can be used include:
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