After 6 years of consulting and support I have accepted a management position as an IT Director and have come across what I’m certain is not a unique situation.
We are a small school and have outside instructors who use need PC’s for their position. Instead of buying new ones my CEO wants them to use their own. That in and of itself doesn’t bother me but right off the bat I came across the worst case scenario.
The new product development instructor brought in his laptop and it had no service packs, outdated virus definitions and expired definition subscriptions with viruses to go along of course and spy ware up the yahoo.
I explained to my CEO that this is only going to get worse. if they’re going to produce work product on the PC’s, they need to be at baseline security wise but are almost all going to this bad or worse. How can I draw the line? I certainly don’t want to have to buy a new laptop each time (never mind my budget/CEO won?t let me) I also don’t want to support everyone’s home PC. Where?s the balance?
