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Instant messaging 'needs to be secure'
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For businesses using instant messaging facilities as part of a unified communications deployment, a new report has urged action to ensure that sensitive data is not transmitted over insecure systems. VNUnet reports that the recent Face Time Communications study finds that one in four employees had admitted to sending company data over instant messaging platforms. Another recent survey by the firm identifies 1,088 separate instant messaging, peer-to-peer and chat-based attacks reported by businesses during 2007. Within the instant messaging sphere, the number of attacks has increased twofold since 2003. The company asserts that businesses need to make sure they have the ability to log business communications over a number of platforms to minimise the risk of data breaches. Furthermore, network security is increasingly important in today's working environment, as hackers adopt evermore sophisticated means of targeting employees over instant messaging systems. Azzurri is helping organisations combine services and applications for secure unified communications and convergence.  |
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