Verizon Service Combats Web Threats
Verizon Business is a company based in Basking Ridge, N.J.,and is a unit of Verizon Communications. The company launched its Managed Web Content Service yesterday, offering large businesses abilities.They offer a way to detect Web-based threats such as spyware and phishing before they affect computer networks. In addition, Verizon is offering to monitor Internet use by employees.
“We are bringing this to market to address the threats that businesses face,” said Cindy Bellefeuille, Verizon Business’ director of security product management, in an interview with eWEEK.
Companies can control employee Web surfing down to the most granular level, she said. For example, she explained, an enterprise can prevent workers from visiting sports sites during football season
The intent of users inadvertently threatening their networks with extracurricular Web surfing is nothing new. A research released by FaceTime Communications in January found 39 percent of users that believe they should be allowed to “install the applications they need on their work computers,” independent of IT oversight or policy, and 53 percent of users “tend to disregard” company policies that govern internet usage, specifically IM and peer-to-peer file sharing. The same study meanwhile found 80 percent of IT managers work at locations that experienced greynet have conducted related virtual attacks between August 2006 and January 2007.
“This really provides a tool for that area,” Bellefeuille said.
The new service includes an anti-virus service that scans Web traffic to identify known viruses and detect characteristics of potential threats. In addition, a spyware service denies access to Web sites that exhibit potential threats from spyware, malware and phishing.
The question that I argue here is, could it be possible that, in exchange of a better electronic security, this company ( and maybe others ) controled and spied a much part of one human life, that part which is geographically located to the working place?How would anyone of you feel if you were controled by your boss, in the name of good working security? I tell you, I would feel very bad, like a slave or robot, although this guardianship was invented from a positive so called social point o view. But there is a saying, that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, so people watch out of securing the security, it might be a spyware security, as I understood that security is against spyware, or was I wrong?
Source: http://www.topix.net/tech/spyware
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