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Web 2.0, social networking can endanger corporate security, analyst says
By xaby | October 3, 2007
October 02, 2007 (Computerworld) — With the Web becoming central to the way companies do business, cybercriminals are taking increasing advantage of Web 2.0 and social networking sites to launch attacks, according to IDC analyst Christian Christiansen.
The Web isn’t the benign resource for information that people once saw it as, said Christiansen, who spoke today at Kaspersky Lab Inc.’s Surviving CyberCrime conference in Waltham, Mass. “One of the things that’s happened that’s disconcerting — and it’s been growing over the last 10 years — is the blending of people’s private lives with their corporate lives,” he said.
Employees’ personal lives — their online shopping habits and interactions with friends and families — get intermingled with the interactions they have at work with customers, fellow employees, partners and suppliers, he said. “So that creates a perforated perimeter where there isn’t a hard, fast separation between the corporate world and the personal world,” he said.
The problem is that employees don’t always follow their companies’ security policies — probably because they don’t know what those policies are, just as they don’t know what their companies’ acceptable use policies are. The result: employees don’t know what’s allowed and what they’re barred from doing. Sometimes, Christiansen said, the very people who set up the corporate policies don’t even follow them.
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