Concerns surrounding the loss of sensitive information increased recently with the release of a short survey by Osterman Research titled Information Leak Prevention, sponsored by FaceTime. They surveyed 109 mid-to large IT organizations in North America regarding their concerns about information leak prevention in their current or planned unified communications deployments and found their respondents had the following concerns.
- 57% believe that their corporate information is not adequately protected from leaks via instant messaging and/or unified communications.
- 48% worried about unintentional or accidental leaks of information by employees.
- 31% named data loss due to malicious software.
- 38% named intentional leaks by employees past or present.
The survey was also picked up by Matt Hines, from eWeek's security watch. In his blog IT Leaders Still Sweating Data Loss he comments;
I think this a good thing, not a bad thing, because if more execs were under the impression that they were already well-defended or protected by some point solutions they already have in place that would likely mean that they're just sitting ducks for upcoming ownage, or for imprudent workers to leave their information exposed.
Clearly there is still plenty more work to be done in the whole world of data protection.
Information Rights Management (IRM) is a good solution to address these concerns and after over 10 years of development, Oracle IRM is perfectly positioned to integrate with different communications systems to ensure that the sensitive data IT managers are worrying about is secured.
So, sweat no more, IT managers! If you feel your job is at risk and your perimeter security solutions (e.g. FaceTime) do not provide persistent controls to protect your most sensitive documents and emails, it's time to start investigating in IRM.
