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.
Mary Mack recently posted her Top 10 e-Discovery Cases in 2008. This is an important read if you care about e-discovery.
As expected, we're seeing an increase in vendors proclaiming support for 'e-discovery'. Archive and legal technology vendors tend to be first ... and most archive vendors tend to describe 'e-discovery' as finding and triaging evidence in the archive. While this is part of the solution, this isn't anywhere near all there is to e-discovery. It's a start.
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