Some highlights out of the Top 9 IT Security Threats and Solutions relative to Sarbanes-Oxley mentioned in this article:
Threat #4 … with social engineering you compromise a human by tricking him/her into supplying personal information and passwords. Any method of communication will be used to perpetrate this fraud including telephones, mobile phones, text messaging, instant messaging, impersonation of support/vendor staff and social networking sites …. (emphasis mine)
Listed as a part of the #1 greatest blunder in tech history, e-mail and instant messaging data leaks and security are a considered major problem. A quote:
The web, email, and instant messaging have given criminals unprecedented opportunities for fraud, scams, and electronic spying. In 2007, corporations lost customer data to cyberthieves like never before. And today's vast digital repositories make for very juicy targets that can be copied onto a few DVDs slipped unnoticed in a jacket pocket.
More reason to control those leak apps, notably e-mail and instant messaging, be it OCS, SameTime, Jabber or all of the public and financial IM solutions.
Quest Software’s Policy Authority solution is an ideal solution for archiving, compliance and data leak protection (DLP) of Instant Messaging (IM) protocols including Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Lotus SameTime, Cisco Jabber, Reuters, Bloomberg, MSN, Yahoo, AOL and other IM protocols. Quest Policy Authority also supports archiving of BlackBerry PIN-to-PIN and BlackBerry call logs for compliance or tracking purposes. The solution is available in either software-only or appliance options, and is deployed in customers around the globe. In a manner of speaking, since MSN, Yahoo, AOL and BlackBerry all have Cloud Computing elements, Quest Policy Authority is an example of a customer-premises management solution being used to manage hybrid on-premises plus Software as a Service components.
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