Question

Consider that monitoring employees' web access, and restricting access to risky sites, is a best practice for most organizations. How far should monitoring go? For instance, consider the situations in which an employee is looking at job sites to look for a new job, or looking at weapons and terrorist sites, or researching cancer treatments. Does permitting access to risky sites pose a risk to the organization? Present a stance you would take from a leadership position in the U.S. on the ethical limits of monitoring employees versus your stance if you were in a leadership position in a different country, such as China or North Korea. Provide a policy statement to support either stance; for example, "The organization will strictly restrict web access by employees in order to promote security and avoid leaks of sensitive information."

Answer 1

yes, permitting access to risky sites may pose a threat to the organization. when an employee enters a risky site then his account or device may get hacked easily which in turn the hacker may get the access to the data of the organization which he may use to his benefits so its better to restrict the employees from accessing risky sites. but the should be a limit on those restrictions as resticting the employee from everything may lead to taking his basic rights while restricting them they should be given their own privacy

in case of their rights its not the correct thing to do by restricting the employees from accessing sites as it is their right to access everything we can only educate them about the risks of accessing those harmful sites and create awareness in them and help them to know which are those harmful sites and the rest is up to the employees on how they access the sites and the security measures they would be taking