Do you read your company’s policy carefully and fully understand what are the do and don’t as an employee to protect your company’s confidential data and security breaches?

With the current high-tech consumer products and services, it has been very difficult for companies to protect their data; in the order words, it increases the risk of security breaches.

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Computerworld Malaysia revealed 8 dangerous consumer technologies in corporate. Let’s see whether we use these tools in our daily working life.

1.Instant Messaging (IM)
- company’s network are exposured to numerous security challenges like malware that enter corporate’s network through IM. IM is one of the most “important tools” for myself in office. We use IM to communicate among colleagues for troubleshooting and escalation issues. In fact, to be honest, I used it a lot for chatting with my friends as well for non-work related issues. So that we won’t feel so boring in office and keep our work going right? I’ve heard several multinational companies are using there own IM software for communication within their company’s network only. The main purposes is to prevent malware attraction.
2.Web mail
- Did you check your personal emails at office? Ohh, Yes. I Do!!! But we really need to make sure we didn’t send any sensitive information like confidential business data throught web mail.
3. Portable storage devices
- USB storage devices, mobile phones with internal or external storage and even iPods are all categorized in this area. I think this is the most difficult area to control for security breaches. You cannot stop employees from carrying these devices to work. As in some extends, these technologies really helps employees to improve their efficiency and productivity.
4.PDAs and Smart Phones
- Blackberry??? More and more manager level personal in our company are using blackberry and smart phones. Of aused it’s for work related purposes (access company’s email anywhere in the world, means you got no excuse no to response to your email during off office hours or outstation), but how do you prevent them from stealing company’s confidential data?

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