Today, the online landscape is alive with participation and collaboration. In addition to Secure Web 2.0 Applications like IM, web conferencing, VoIP, and blogs, hundreds of social networking sites are available to anyone with a browser. Several have evolved into full-blown development platforms - Facebook alone supports almost 50,000 applications, known as 'widgets'. And well over one hundred million people have personal pages or profiles on at least one social networking site. Many companies are finding ways to use these public utilities for internal use and collaboration. Shutting them down completely is not viable which makes controlling employee use and employee abuse of them absolutely critical.
All this openness and collaboration between social and business networks means many more opportunities exist for business assets and intellectual property to leave the safety of the corporate environment, and many more opportunities for unauthorized and unethical entities to gain access.
And then there are the additional productivity issues resulting from non-business-related use of Secure Web 2.0 Applications and social networks during the workday.
Left unsecured and unmanaged, widespread use of Secure Web 2.0 Applications and social networking can:
• Create holes for information leakage, resulting in the loss of confidential information
• Expose organizations to legal liabilities and financial penalties from compliance breaches
• Compromise network security from malware spread through real-time channels
• Increase helpdesk calls and support costs
• Cause network bandwidth overload with file sharing
Seven Days Technologies offers customers a risk assessment service which will allow customers to investigate and understand the full impact all these internet applications have on their organization.
The one week non-intrusive engagement will monitor and report on the organizations usage of social networking, instant messaging, web applications, malware and P2P applications. Organizations will then have a better understanding of what internet applications are being used by their employees and what the potential risk is in terms of:
• Data loss
• Usage
• Abuse
• Productivity impact
• Business enablement
• Security
At the end of the engagement a comprehensive report detailing all incidents and activities within the organizations network is delivered along with recommendations and action points.
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