If you have employees with unmonitored access to e-mail and the Internet, there are a number of activities they can participate in that can harm your business:
1. Bandwidth Costs:
Heavy graphics, video clips, and audio files are particularly notorious for clogging digital pipelines.
If your staff is emailing photos of their family vacation to their friends, paying bills online, or downloading music,
they are using up a huge amount of expensive bandwidth and slowing down your organization as a result.
2. Legal Liability:
70% of all Internet porn traffic occurs during the 9-to-5 workday (SexTracker) . The Courts have ruled that companies can be held accountable for their employees forwarding offensive
messages and viewing pornography.
3. A Damaged Reputation:
I know of a lawyer who forwarded an explicit email he received from a female acquaintance to several co-workers as a joke. Unfortunately, they sent it on to a few of their friends and within a short period of time, thousands of people from around the world, including the press, received it. Because of this e-mail, they ended up in a huge controversy that hurt their image and credibility.
4. Loss of Productivity:
E-mail and the Internet offer a temptation that is hard to resist; that’s why 73% of employees who use the Internet are fully aware that they are consuming valuable bandwidth and hampering critical business activities with inappropriate Internet usage – but do it anyway.
5. Viruses and Spyware:
Employees can accidentally (or intentionally!) download harmful viruses and spyware through music files, screen savers, and other online files.
So What Can You Do To Protect Your Organization?
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