Productivity and Efficiency

Best Practices for Reclaiming Productivity and Efficiency

Most organizations are interested in establishing email and the Web as business tools, not distractions. To accomplish this, it's critical to educate, communicate and then enforce an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). Most organizations leverage technology to enforce a number of common policies, including:

• Blocking pornographic websites
• Blocking access to time-wasting and non-business Web content; e.g. gambling, jokes
• Limiting personal website access to lunch hours
• Restricting overall Internet use by applying weekly bandwidth or time quotas
• Blocking access to certain file types such as video or music, including both Web downloads and email attachments
• Blocking emails that exceed a defined size limit
• Blocking emails that have excessive numbers of attachments (e.g. more than 10)
• Blocking chain letters and virus hoaxes
• Blocking spam

Email and Web access are viewed by many users as a privilege and organizations must balance that expectation (to retain quality employees) with the obvious concerns of lost productivity. M86 Security provides the technology needed to make sure that balance is maintained.