KnowledgeLink Interactive Inc. Mitsubishi Electric America Inc. Providing such content is a growth business. But it's tough to find a case that has been successfully argued this point. On a practical level, Web access control in the corporate environment creates a bear of an IT planning issue.
Employee surveillance raises questions of privacy and fairness.
Still, IT executives must wrestle with the question of not only whether but how to control Internet usage so that their networks aren't burdened by unnecessary traffic that can slow response times and call for premature hardware upgrades. Ill.-based Spyglass Inc. These management tools are arriving none too soon. Auditing and control systems, however, will lag behind deployment of IP-mediated applications for awhile, as they have in other cases. Abuse of corporate telephone systems, for example, was brought under control only with the advent of call-accounting systems in the 1980s. These tools provide call logs for each telephone extension, showing the length and cost of each call.