Only using Intranet at Banks?
I heard from a friend that at some finance companies they only let employees communicate on their intranet..So they aren't able to send emails to anyone outside the office? Is this true for you guys? Or is my friend misinformed? Seems like work would be very hard to do...
You can send personal mails but they would block any technical code or similar things. They track closely what you are sending out and They can take strict action if they find you sent out some sensitive information.
Sending email with code to outside is the fastest way to get out of the company
Dealt with that when I was a sales grunt for Sprint, could imagine banks doing that
Yup, as a general rule of thumb. Most personal sites are blocked and as CS said, they run a tight ship on what's being sent and rec'd.
Yea, working at a Bank you get fucked at least twice. Once with comp, and second time on the work environment. If you have the chops to leave that shit environment do it asap
These companies are regulated to monitor external communication channels to prevent things like insider trading. It is kind of hard to explain how you're doing this if employees can access Gmail over TLS on their desktops. They can't block everything but they check off some boxes for regulators by blocking email clients and social media logins
You're not allowed a phone at all on the trading floor!
Where's that?
In official words, every bank. But I don't see a real bank following this guideline.
We get an it escalation if we do, specially if there's an attachment but can normally explain away
Bank of America does that. No external emails access for contractors. Worst is no cell phones allowed in offshore locations.
Not true for Bank of America but most of the sites are blocked by GIS and all email communications are monitored
Actually, we only block a handful of categories. Fun fact, YouTube isn’t blocked because of productivity. It’s 100% because it was putting a lot of load on the network and slowing down business related stuff
Probably true for I.T folks (term tor tech team in banks who are not designing trading algos). And only using intranet is fair as you are a second-class citizen and they don’t want to face embarrassment by having you interface directly with important clients. Please leave the interfacing to the face of the company (dapper finance folks)