It's 2009 and the Global Economic Crisis is cutting deeply into many overhead areas and it's not over yet.
As a Manager, Auditor, SAM or ITAM professional you are more than likely facing significant cutbacks in costs and resources.
If you haven't yet, our tip is you soon will be!
When staff in your organization hear that audit teams, SAM and ITAM resources are shrinking in size (the communication lines are clear and very fast when it comes to loss of staff and resources in any business) and that audit and monitoring tools might be turned off, or turned down in frequency of audit monitoring due to cost cutbacks, the end user will be freer than ever to take advantage of the massive bandwidth and pipelines that exist into your organization to do a wide range of things that you have been guarding against eg;
o Install unauthorized software;
o Make, share or distribute copies of licensed software;
o Use software that you suspect to be unlicensed; or
o Download, duplicate, share or use Bit Torrent, Peer to Peer (P2P) systems or file transfer protocol (FTP) to circulate, distribute and access copies of copyrighted material. This specifically includes all executable files, music and sound files (eg: *.wav and *.mp3) and video files (eg: *.wmf, *.avi, *.mpg and *.mov), and font files (eg; *.fon and *ttf)
Fonts are risk are too - see http://www.pcprofile.com/What_The_Font.pdf and http://www.pcprofile.com/Font_Piracy_Defend_yourself.pdf
If you are
wondering how you are going to manage compliance after having your budget
and resources cut in the current economic climate, then take a look at 4 key
steps that can change attitudes at the desktop by end users to compliance!
Step 1 - Define an Acceptable Use Policy
Step 2 - Deploy the Acceptable Use Policy
Step 3 - Audit to the Acceptable Use Policy
Step 4 - Enforce the Acceptable Use Policy
Sometimes going back to basics is the best way to force the changes in
attitude at the desktop you need to keep you compliant!
Don’t be surprised when you discover that this approach will save you
money in the long run!
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