Comments | midiamin: Economies of Scale

midiamin

Economies of Scale

Mar 18, 2006 22:47

The company I'm working for now makes its home in a rather large building that rents out configured-to-suit cube space and office services in order to serve startups that need office space and want to get started Right Bloody Now. It's an interesting idea. Compare:

Look through office complexes and try to find an office that ( Read more... )

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iphy March 19 2006, 22:41:56 UTC

The company I work for is doing something similar a few places where we keep small sales offices. It makes for a data security nightmare in general, unless you're running something that requires auth to connect to your network. That is, a lot of people who don't work for your company have physical access to your computers and, worse, network. There are ways to mitigate this, of course. You can require that each employee VPN back to the Mothership (with no split-tunneling, so then you have to work out a local printing solution) in order to actually access your internal Corporate network. Or you can do something that requires auth to get onto the network locally, with 802.1x or VMPS or something similar. Either one leaves you praying that your employees actually lock their systems when they step away ( ... )

midiamin March 19 2006, 23:40:58 UTC

It makes for a data security nightmare in general, unless you're running something that requires auth to connect to your network.

Yup, it does. Fortunately, the house IT isn't forcing everyone onto the same network, and our cluster of cubes is on a private net behind a firewall managed jointly by us and them, so we get a little more network security that way. That does still require us to trust that they won't screw us over and allow Bad Guys to have access to our network, intentionally or not, and there's still not anything keeping someone from jumping the wall with a long cable or a laptop.

Either one leaves you praying that your employees actually lock their systems when they step away.

Or that.

...which puts them one above your random neighbors in shared space whom you know nothing about. But, in the end, it's not really a lot different.

But it feels safer to have a building to yourself, doesn't it? Or if you're not that big, to have your own office in an office park and ignore the fact that your neighbors could lift a few ( ... )