Networking

If you are the owner, office administrator or the manager of the data systems in your organization you NEED to know what is going on at all levels of your business. Do you really want Tom surfing the internet half of the day looking for new golf clubs while he is pretending to be working? Does he really need access to the internet? Does he need access to your sensitive files? What if Tom accidentally picks up a Trojan virus program while surfing the web that secretly infects all of the other machines in your office? You need to limit access to computer resources on a need to know basis.

Without even realizing your system was compromised Tom could have left the floodgate open for some hackers or corporate raiders to gain access to your entire mailing lists or even worse more sensitive data such as credit files, card numbers, names and addresses.We can install and maintain an office networking system you can trust implicitly. You can limit the levels of access to individual employees and monitor their activities with password protected computers. Not as a purely voyeuristic whim, but as avalid and necessary reason to protect and preserve your companies sensitive, personally identifiable files and data. You NEED to know what is going on in your company.

How about the employee who is secretly downloading CD's and pictures while he is working and has installed a file sharing program on his PC that allows anyone in the world to access his hard drive files with a few stealth manipulations? Do you have employees that use chat programs while they are working like ICQ or Yahoo Messenger? Do you know that those programs have file sharing transfer programs? A disgruntled employee could be transferring your sensitive files or corporate strategies to anyone. You need to have a standard hierarchy plan. You can authorize who gets what levels of access to computer files in your organization. Just issuing an interoffice memo won't keep it from happening. You need to keep it from happening with a controlled networking environment with user permissions.

Now comes a very tough subject to address. We almost hate to even suggest it. But, it needs addressing. This doesn't happen a lot, but it does happen and the tell-tale signs are easy to read. What about the employee who purposefully causes a problem in order to justify his job? Nobody is any wiser. They just know the system is down. They all run to Bob and tell him that nobody can print out anything. Bob spends 30 minutes, fixes the problem he created and winds up looking like a hero. Does your system go on the fritz more than you think it should? That is the tell-tale sign. A properly installed networking system NEVER goes bad after it has been set up and tested. The reliability factor on today's networking systems is 99.9% and if something goes wrong in virtually all cases someone has messed with the settings.