Question

Network security:

Provide what punishment should be for violators of the network policy at the companies. These punishments must be able to be enforceable, not just a threat.

Answer 1

The punishment that should be for violators of the network policy at the companies, that must be able to be enforceable, not just a threat:
* In practice, the punishment is either imprisonment for a certain term, fine of a certain amount, or a combination of both.

However, personally, below is, assuming the violation is intentional, the same as any company would consider when an outsider, an attacker, or a hacker violates the company's network policy.
* In general, doing so, as in, violating the network policy, should be considered, termed, and tagged as a computer crime, cybercrime, and specifically a network crime.
* It should be seen as an activity of hacking, attacking, and should be termed as unofficial, unethical, unprofessional, and illegal.
* The person should be terminated from his/her service at the company.
* The company has every right to lodge a complaint against the person at an appropriate and relevant law enforcement body or authority.
* He/she should be punishable with imprisonment for a term depending on the degree of the violation, the impact, damages, loss, consequences, etc.
* He/she should be punishable with a fine or penalty of a certain and appropriate amount depending on the degree of the violation, the impact, damages, loss, consequences, etc.
* The person should not be provided with any job-related papers, documents, or letters for his service at the company.
* The person should be blacklisted in an appropriate centralized employees' database maintained across companies i.e., in a network of companies