Richard MacManus has written an excellent article about IT fear of Web2.0 which is based on a Forrester Research report.
Recently I was at a CEO dinner here in Austin and the FBI was there telling us about all the foreign government-backed companies (read: China) that are conducting economic espionage in the U.S.
While I think the concern at a national level is overblown (and the solution probably overpriced), it is reasonable as a leader of a company to be cognizant of how you might reasonably minimize the risk of trade secret loss to other entities, wherever they are. Web2.0 technologies - any new communication technologies, really - exacerbate the problem. They just do. That doesn’t mean they’re bad per se, or that you should ditch the baby with the bathwater, but IT’s job is security and you shouldn’t prevent them from doing their job.
The article points out that 78% of IT decision makers are concerned about unsanctioned employee Web2.0 usage, but that in reality, big companies have only a few employees using these technologies today.
For a contrary view, take a look at this post at SmoothSpan Blog.
- Curt Finch, Journyx CEO
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