Critical Business Information Goes Unsecured

Critical business information goes unsecured A high percentage of proprietary business communications are being handled nonchalantly through unsecured channels – such as Web email and personal instant messaging (IM) – raising serious concerns about the potential loss of intellectual property, according to new research released at the Microsoft Global Technology Summit in San Jose, Calif. The research discovered that 78 percent of business decision makers and 85 percent of technology decision makers reported they used at least one of a number of insecure public communications tools to collaborate with partners.

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