Hello Everyone,
A senior executive at the firm I work for recently emailed everyone at the organization that the company’s mail network was being overburdened with personal mails being sent by employees to each other. He stressed on the fact that the company was developing outsourced projects and said that there due to the nature of the work involved and intellectual property rights, he has enforced a policy that bars anyone from sending mail attachments via the company’s mail servers and through free web based mail services like hotmail and yahoo mail. As a result of this, access to sites such as hotmail and yahoo have been blocked and we’re restricted to sending mails to our project members only.
Was the decision to block access to free web based services fair?
Is there any suggestion as to what could be an alternative course of action which would protect the company’s sensitive information from being leaked via email services and also allow the employees the freedom to access the likes to hotmail and yahoo?