What are you surfing in office?

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Pix Alert is a company that specialises in the prevention of illegal and pornographic images on personal computers. A study conducted by PixAlert has set alarm bells ringing all over cyberspace and in the corporate world: The study says that 25% of corporate PCs have pornographic material, and of these, nearly 47% of the images showed full nudity or sexual activity. Here’s how the pornographic pattern played out, while 45% of the offending images came from e-mails, 35% of the images were downloaded online. The study was conducted taking into account auditing of about 10,000 personal computers (in 125 businesses and public networks). Andy Churley, a director at PixAlert, has said in a statement that, “With over a third of all images found created in the last 12 months, it is clear that a significant number of employees continue to ignore corporate policies and, in some cases, are going to extraordinary lengths to bypass protection systems in order to obtain and distribute inappropriate material... Corporate officers wrongly assume that boundary protection systems stop all digital pornography from entering the organisation but, in PixAlert’s experience, almost all corporations will have a significant amount of pornography on their networks.”

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative