You know you’ve arrived when…
You know Second Life has “arrived” when blocking it is a selling point for security software. According to Computer Active, security software company Sophos will soon release a patch to prevent corporate users to log in to SL. And I thought only high schools were control-freakish enough to clamp down on computer use with this kind of granularity. It seems to me that if enough people in your office are spending that much time in SL that perhaps you should consider making use of the that time in a way that could increase productivity (in-world meetings etc) rather than policing it with security software. If only we could see usage stats from some of these companies. Then again, services like Twitter and the eagerly anticipated my.secondlife.com will provide users other ways to interact with their SL contacts.
August 12th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
IntellaG,
I think this is probably because of SOX, HIPPA, etc. Sophos is in the enterprise security market. Any communication, no matter how fleeting (IM, VoIP, etc), is subject to to Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA and now e-discovery- which means it has to be logged. I am a fan of Second Life, but in terms of publicly traded companies I am not sure how they could be compliant given the various errr….security holes.
I do agree with out. Alot could be accomplished by burning power point and moving to twitter and breaking down silos with avatars. Big business isn’t ready for it yet- Linden Labs isn’t ready for it yet.
best,
Wayne