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lol, what an example of IT-departments gone bad. Makes you wonder how on earth decisions are made sometimes.



Well, to be fair Websense is a broad brush. You get a limited number of "categories" which are defined by the company which contain a large number of sites.

Disallowing (by default) access to all sites in any of the the "download" categories is a sane and sensible thing to do in a large corporation.

However if you convince your line manager that you need access to the sites for business reasons they should be able to get it approved and an exception made in line with your company's policies.

I've had some interesting requests - access to on-line wine ordering for corporate entertainment purchasing (blocked by the "tobacco and alcohol" group), access to the UK national lottery site so people could check their lottery tickets(blocked by "gambling") so but the best by far was a request from the staff in our Czech sites who routinely order their underwear online and were blocked by the "lingerie" group rule - now, who am I to deny the ladies their knickers?