big brother
I need your help.
Now that we have a true, centralized network (with public and private shares and groups) I figure it’s time for a computer use policy. I want to make sure as an administrator that I am protected from privacy issues that may surface. Also, I think it should be stated somewhere and agreed to by the users that anything on the server, public or private, is church property and is subject to review by administrators at any time.
Everyone I’ve talked too about this seems to think I’m just paranoid. I think I’m just thinking ahead.
So I ask you my trusted circle of geeks, what kind of disclaimers do you ask your users to agree too? Can you send me examples? Or am I just over complicating things?
Here’s how we handle it … I know everyone’s password. Makes my life easier as an administrator (I can log on as user X and see problems that may only be happening to them) and let’s them know without really stating it that we have access to everything.
And yes you do want your staff to understand that nothing on the network is theirs. It’s all property of the church. I think we might have a blurb in the staff handbook that talks about this … I’ll check and see.