From: Ellen K. 

Why?   Do you imagine you would work as a telephone service
representative in our call center?   I assure you we are not going to
restrict access for our in-house counsel, who in fact is one of the people
pushing for this because it will cut down on fraud by preventing the
employees from taking customer information home by emailing it to
themselves using their hotmail or whatever.

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:36:06 -0500, "Gary Britt"
 wrote in message
:

>I'd hate to work at your employers.
>
>Gary
>
>"Ellen K." 
wrote in message
>news:frie411ubovd2ghdv5f67hdqd2rdcd22vq{at}4ax.com...
>> Not my area of responsibility but I always like to help if I can:
>> We want to restrict the rank-and-file users to a few allowed sites like
>> FedEx and UPS.  In our morning briefing the other day it was stated that
>> everyone would have to have fixed IP addresses to do this (that part I
>> understand, since the restrictions are not to apply to everyone) and we
>> would have to have a proxy server.
>>
>> I actually don't know what a proxy server even is, but the IT director
>> said it's complicated.   So first of all, is it true that we would need
>> a proxy server?   And secondly, if so, is it complicated?
>>
>> Alternatively, is there any other way to do it?  We want to leave people
>> like directors and IT with full internet access.   Most boxes have no
>> external IP address and a dynamic internal one.  The only ones with
>> fixed internal ones are people who pcAW in to their desktop, which for
>> all I know might only be me because when they set up an additional
>> desktop for me recently they left the internal address dynamic and I
>> couldn't get to it.
>

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