Study reveals slack security on corporate instant message systems.
By Priya Ganapati
November 8, 2005
Whether intended or not, employees have started leaking confidential information through instant messaging systems as they try to avoid corporate email surveillance, according to a study released Tuesday.
About four out of five companies studied by Reconnex, an enterprise risk management company, had some form of confidential data pass through their instant messaging systems during the months of August and September. Just 10 to 13 percent of companies had sensitive data pass into secured email systems, Reconnex said.
“Instant messaging is commonplace but is not properly monitored,” said Kevin Cheek, vice president of marketing at Reconnex. “We are seeing a much smaller percentage of leaks through email and more through IM which has becomes an avenue for insiders to share nonpublic information.”
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