Monitoring and Controlling Employee Use of MySpace in the Workplace

Over the past few years, Internet usage of social networks has become commonplace and MySpace still sees an incredible amount of use. The social aspects of MySpace do not stop when the employee goes to work. Employee use and abuse of MySpace has become a particular problem. The risk of distributing proprietary content, improper use of company computing resources as well as productivity losses are all real threats to the employer. Furthemore, MySpace has had issues in the past with certain pages redirecting users to spyware installs. However, prohibiting employees completely from using MySpace may not be an option as there are often legitimate reasons to allow usage and some companies may want to avoid employee backlash from over restrictive policies How can an employer monitor and control MySpace usage in the workplace and protect itself from potential inappropriate use.

FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway (USG) is a complete secure Web gateway; combining fine-grained Web application control and real-time communications security with content filtering and malware protection. USG provides the solution to employee use and abuse of MySpace in the office and provides the monitoring and control required while still meeting the needs of the employee. USG provides granular controls include quota setting by employee, time and bandwidth as well as specific control of MySpace applications.

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