On the other hands, the staffs may access other unnecessary web sites. This may slow down the productivity of the company if the staffs spend a lot of time on browsing web sites for their own goodness. Further, there are a lot harmful web sites on the Internet, if someone accesses such web sites, his computer may get infected. How to prevent internal staffs from browsing unnecessary web sites? Asking the staffs to behave themselves does not work well. To prevent this, one of the effective methods is to implement "Web Filtering". You can control which sets of web sites that can be accessed and block all the others. Or, just block a pre-defined list of web sites and allow all the others. You can also monitor and log down which web sites the staffs have accessed. This will affect the privacy of the staffs and should be conducted under the consent of them.
CPTTM held a workshop on 31st March which is named “Workshop - Protecting your Organization from Outbound Risk with Web filtering tool” on 31st March, from 14:30 to 17:30 at CyberLab. In this Workshop, we have invited the Engineer of Secure Computing Corporation, Mr. Michael Lai, to talk about the inbound and outbound risks while he also introduced the functionalities of Web Filtering and Content Categories and the installation and implementation consideration. Finally, there have a hands-on lab for the attendants to have an experience on how to implement web filtering.
Contents:
- Understand the difference between inbound and outbound risk.
- Issues relating to the web access by the employee: 1. Productivity. 2. Liability/Legality. 3. Bandwidth Management. 4. Security
- Functionalities of Web Filtering and Content Categories.
- Installation and Implementation consideration.
- Hand-in Session.
Photos:
Engineer of Secure Computing Corporation, Mr. Michael Lai talk to the attendants about the content of the workshop
The attendants
Hand-on lab in processing