**excerpt from Globe & Mail Article. Original can be found here.

Marco Bonanni of Optrics Engineering, a diamond partner of Barracuda Networks, which specializes in e-mail and web security, said workers should be aware everything they’re doing is marked and logged — even things they might think are innocent.

“The equipment that most organizations install nowadays have months and months of logged data and information about every single message that goes in and out of the company, or every single URL or website that’s been visited” he said from Edmonton.

What’s more, some filters are set or configured to display a message notifying users that a particular website they’re trying to visit has been blocked.

“Even though it is blocked, it still logs the fact that they attempted to go to it” he said.

In most cases, Bonanni said companies are trying to protect themselves against virus infection, but in some instances they’re looking for something specifically to prevent abuse.

**excerpt from Globe & Mail Article. Original can be found here.

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