Half
Of Employers Block MySpace Or Facebook
By Mike Sachoff
Forty-four percent of companies using
Barracuda filters block MySpace. 26
percent block Facebook and 19.3 percent
block both sites.
In a separate survey of IT professionals
conducted by Barracuda found that 53
percent of businesses restrict surfing
with filtering systems and around 65
percent plan to implement surfing restrictions
in 2008. Close to 23 percent growth
from year to year.
Seventy percent of businesses said
the reason they had Internet restrictions
was due to spyware or virus prevention.
Fifty-two percent cited employee productivity
concerns. Other concerns were bandwidth
(36%) and liability issues (28%).
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