Security vs. Social Media: How to Keep Your Customers on the Winning Side
July 15, 2010 10:53 AM ET
Without a doubt, social networking and other Web applications have experienced an exponential upwards spike in recent years, and subsequently users are becoming more proficient about masking their use in the workplace. As employees engage in tricks that include using company laptops for recreational home use to deploying proxy servers to mask their use within the organization's firewall, IT administrators are steadily losing visibility and control.' This often results in loss of user productivity and increased vulnerability to security threats and legal issues, while degrading network performance and taxing bandwidth.
Join Everything Channel Security Editor Stefanie Hoffman and SonicWALL Product Line Manager Dmitriy Ayrapetov on July 20 at 11:00 am Pacific/2:00 pm Eastern as they discuss:
- Trends of increased reliance on instant messaging, P2P, social networking and other Web applications in the workplace.
- Ramifications of this trend that include everything from overburdened bandwidth to security threats delivered over these applications.
- How the channel can deliver potential solutions addressing these visibility challenges.
Attend live and ask your questions in real time!
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