In The News: Web Porn at Work

The news article above outlines one Japanese worker who surfed porn at work and was undetected for quite some time. It was not until his computer picked up a virus from one of the sites he was surfing that his extensive browsing was discovered.

Wouldn't you hate to have been the IT administrator of that network, having to explain why you didn't detect this waste of bandwidth earlier? Or even simpler, why such an abuse of corporate policy was allowed without detection.

The web proxy would have been the simplest network device to have implemented, to enforce policy, or at the very least categorize web browsing into reports for management to see where traffic was going and from which IP addresses. It's incredible to think that with the network tools available today, we still hear stories like this one.