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How to prevent staff steal our site?
| Posted by ebetz, 05-11-2008, 02:33 PM |
| Become my attention when we hire company/people to handle our server due our knowledge about manage dedicated server is low level and we run big site on that server.
Anybody know about tips how to prevent staff from managed service steal our site,even they has been trusted and handled hundred or thousand servers.As we know when we hired them for full managed service,they have our root access.
Thanks.
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| Posted by ub3r, 05-11-2008, 02:46 PM |
| If they have root access, then there isn't a lot you could do. Maybe you could give them all standard-user accounts, and require they use sudo to become root.
Also, Put them under contract.
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| Posted by network82, 05-11-2008, 05:08 PM |
| You should really of had a contract and NDA from day one..
But i've sure you can arrange something with them..
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| Posted by Voyagerx1, 05-11-2008, 08:20 PM |
| Chances are they're going to need root access to manage particular aspects of the sever. If this is the case, there isn't much you can do. As ub3r said, perhaps you can have them use sudo... But that may cause some problems for them. You'd need to ask the people you've hired about this.
Finally, a legal agreement should take care of this and leave them with reliability. Consult with a laywer if you're still unsure.
Good luck!
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| Posted by ebetz, 05-12-2008, 12:52 PM |
| Thanks guys for all suggestions,worried feeling sometimes make us to do more better and get learning hard about everything.
But like or not we must take off service management in next day and handle the server byself.
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| Posted by brianoz, 05-14-2008, 07:19 AM |
| You could ensure key components of the site are encoded using ioncube or zend, which would make it a lot harder to steal the site as it wouldn't work. You needn't encrypt all the files on the site, just a few critical ones - and one of those could even check for the server being the same.
Other than that there's not much you can do either way from a purely technical point of view. Of course, a good NDA signed by staff helps. Perhaps it's also worth remembering that stealing a site often isn't enough for them to successfully steal the idea as soft people-based skills are needed to make a site work well.
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