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I think IT often overestimates the actual extra burden that would be required to support more devices and the risks associated. At the last company I worked at
by gcheong 16y ago
I think IT often overestimates the actual extra burden that would be required to support more devices and the risks associated. At the last company I worked at there were calls for people to be publicly made "examples of" for running Firefox as it was deemed too much of a support burden to have to support both IE and Firefox and a security threat. Then they found out the CEO had installed it and their tone changed from calling for a witch hunt to a begrudged "you can run it but we won't support it".
- Natsu 16y agoIf they're firing people for using Firefox, that's one thing. That's just absurd. But having people bring in their home computers that might be virus-infected or part of a botnet to work? Err, no. I've had more than one home computer brought to me to fix and I have never once let them on the network. I don't need to find out that the next Sasser/Blaster/whatever is now rampaging through our internal network. That's not to say that there aren't people and companies (likely small ones) that couldn't handle this. But unless each person was a pretty decent computer admin who was not likely to install crapware, kept themselves patched, etc., I wouldn't trust them at all. But, like I said, I've seen the home machines of the people at work and I've removed viruses from them. There's no way I'd put them on our network even though I don't think there's anything they could infect. It's just not smart.