Symantec Corp. announced the findings of its 2011 Social Media Protection Flash Poll which examined how organizations protect themselves from negative consequences of using social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and other online forums. The poll revealed that social media is pervasive within the enterprise, and IT departments have good reason to be worried. The typical enterprise experienced nine social media incidents, such as employees posting confidential information publicly over the past year, with 94 percent suffering negative onsequences including damage to their reputations, loss of customer trust, data loss and lost revenue.
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- Enterprise Vault: The KVS Years, 2000-2004
- Early Days of Corporate Email: Selling the Idea
- Memories of ALL-in-1: Tony Redmond Recalls
- Early Days of Corporate Email: Some Personal Observations
- Enterprise Vault: The Early Days, 1997-2000
- Quick History of ALL-IN-1
- Origin of Emoticons
- Google+ Is Major Competition for Facebook
- Moving to Hosted Exchange: Plan for Hiccups
- Employees Drive Adoption of Instant Messaging, Skype and Unified Communications in the Enterprise
- The Technical Case: Why XMPP Is Better Than SIP/SIMPLE for Instant Messaging
- Using Instant Messaging and Chat Rooms Safely
- SMS makes way for instant messaging
- Debate: XMPP Won’t Bring Universal IM
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- Email Security Appliances Are Popular … for Now (2005)
- Mobile Phone Viruses a Theoretical Threat, but People Are Cynical (2005)
- Jury Still Out on CAN-SPAM: Case for the Defense (2005)
- Jury Still Out on CAN-SPAM: Case for the Prosecution (2005)
- Virtual Directories and Metadirectories Will Coexist (2005)
- Notes on Exhibitors at Exchange Connections Conference (2005)
- The Most Important Value Adds in a Directory (2005)
- Who Puts a Lot of Information in Directories? (2005)
- The Benefits of LDAP/X.500 Directories (2005)
- H.323 Development Dying/Dead (2005)
- For Instant Messaging and Presence Services Federation and Standards are Complementary (2005)
- The Notes Roadmap – IBM’s strategy is crystal clear (2005)
- Instant Messaging to Usurp SMS on Mobile Phones (2005)
- Microsoft’s Hosted Exchange Should Do Well (2005)
- How Long is the Virus Window of Vulnerability? (2005)
- What will become of our digital legacies? (2004)
- MOOL: What it is and what it isn’t (2004)
- Unforeseen consequences of fighting spam (2004)
- Who’s buying anti-spam? (2004)
- SMS Spam–A Sample (2004)
- Malware by IM An Emerging Threat (2004)
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