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Friday, June 07, 2002
http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/security/article/0,,10818_1268921,00.html IM Use a Big Security Threat - Study Bob Woods When it comes to security issues in the enterprise, blame the messenger and not the communications channel -- at least that's what a majority of IT security pros say in a new study from Gartner Inc. for managed security-services provider Guardent Inc. Eighty percent of all network security managers who were surveyed last month at the Gartner Information Security Conference in Chicago, claim their biggest security threat comes from their own employees. Just as surprising is that 58% of those surveyed said the careless use of personal communications by their employees -- especially e-mail and instant messaging (IM) -- poses the most dangerous security risk to their networks....
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