Why YSK: It appears several Lemmy Instances are flagged as suspicious and at least 1 instance intentionally using the name of ransomware. A couple of the big enterprise monitoring suites (Fortiguard, ZScaler) will flag your account and may end up with you being pulled into an office for an explanation, or worse.

TL;DR: Keep browsing to your local instance at work for now.

    • theDoctor@lemmy.sdf.org
      21·
      1 year ago

      If you are on their network they can see what you are doing. At the end of the day, the business will protect itself.

      Do what you want at your own risk. But never assume that any company is on your side.

      • monobot@lemmy.ml
        4·
        1 year ago

        This is so simple, whatever policy they have if something goes wrong they will try their best to find a scape goat.

        Why do you people have phones with gigabytes of daya for?

        Additionally, do your best not to be part of the company where you might get into trouble for just using internet.

    • ludwig@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Do the other departments use managed devices? IT might get pretty mad if your department went over them and bought computers themselves, lol.

      It’s not optimal from a security and legal point of view.

        • ludwig@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          Alright. Seems reasonable as long as the devices are sandboxed from the company network and resources.

            • ludwig@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 year ago

              They aren’t, and our private phones are also connected to the network ;)

              Why though‽ Most consumer routers even have a guest network enabled by default.

              it really depends on what the company does.

              That’s true, but an attack could probably cause a lot of damage to any company (especially a big one) without proper security. Regardless of what they do.

              Well at least you don’t have to deal with ITs PC policies, which can get pretty annoying. Allowing any device to join the company network seems incredibly stupid though.

              Let’s just hope that none of your unmanaged machines get compromised.

              At my previous company, only domain work computers could join the PC WiFi (with a certificate, so no passwords) and work smartphones could only join the work WiFi for mobiles.

              Private devices and very limited amount of non domain computers were only allowed on the guest network and couldn’t connect to any other.

              The company didn’t do anything special that needed extra security.