FROM THE IGLOO

The Business Software Alliance settled with 12 Canadian companies who were caught using unlicensed copies of software on their computers. A link to one article about this is here. According to that article, Michael Murphy of BSA Canada said, “These settlements demonstrate that even well-managed organizations need to pay careful attention to software licensing requirements.”

I don’t know all the details of each of these cases. It’s possible that the IT staff willfully installed unlicensed software. It’s at least equally possible that individual users or perhaps department heads installed unlicensed software on a subset of computers either on purpose or by mistake. That’s where a whitelisting product like Faronics Anti-Executable would have protected the company. With Anti-Executable, software that is not designated as being part of IT’s master White List can never be installed or launched. Therefore, there is no risk of being caught with your pants down like these companies were. Check it out.