[offtopic] Using School Supplied laptos at home

[WEIR Andrew]

Alan,
Other then anti virus tools we have no other tools on the local
machine's.
There are some security policies set so that staff can't install
programs.
However it not the viruses that are the issue, it's the content, staff
downloading pictures (of an adult nature) and just generally
inappropriate content for a Work based machine.
Andrew

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Alan Oh
Sent: Tuesday, 27 May 2008 12:48 PM
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Subject: RE: [offtopic] Using School Supplied laptos at home

What are the main concerns with home connection? Would the security
software already installed on the laptop be able to handle "nasties"
from the internet?


Regards
 
Alan Oh
Waverley Christian College
Tel: (613) 9871-8600 ext 605
www: www.wcc.vic.edu.au
email: oh.a at wcc.vic.edu.au

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[mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of WEIR Andrew
Sent: Tuesday, 27 May 2008 12:34 PM
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Subject: [offtopic] Using School Supplied laptos at home

Dear all,
I am after some recommendations or opinions on solving a few issues.
Currently the school provides all its staff with laptop computers for
use at school and limited use at home.
However staff are not meant to connect to there home ISP's or browse the
internet at home.

We are currently trying to solve the issues so that staff can use them
at home, but we need to be able to monitor/log what staff are
downloading onto these computers.

Does anyone know of or have an ideas for how this could be done. 

So far my thoughts run to installing some sort of "Net Nanny" style
program, and using the Sina Black list.

This is the first of three issues that we are facing preventing staff
using the computers at home. However this is kind of the most important
one.

Regards

Andrew





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