Gartner analyst Stephen Elliot said many companies have been slow to adopt Internet management technology, with roughly 35 percent of companies in the United States using content filtering systems. About a third of companies that do not say they plan to start in the next two years. Elliot predicted that growth in the Internet management market will jump 35 percent by 2003 from 1999. Still, companies' keeping track of what workers are doing online on company time has raised the ire of privacy advocates. See past story.
Corporations do have a certain right to understand what their resource is being used for.
If it's misused, harassment cases can arise and get very expensive, very quickly. Corporate 'culture' Carrington said that Websense takes the position that it's providing the system that allows a company to implement its own culture, not just to poke its nose into workers' activities. If management were to notice such an increase, that could be an indication of a human-resources problem that should be addressed, Carrington explained. Our systems help a company on a higher group level. 2001 Websense Inc. All rights reserved.