Adopting Web 2.0 practices opens the door to significant security risks according to Gartner
Gartner fellow Joseph Feiman indicated at a recent conference in Sydney Australia that many of the concepts of Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis and social networks run contrary to traditional IT security practice and therefore pose increased legal risks.
While business blogging is generally a positive approach for building brand awareness, it also has the potential to reveal company secrets or provide an outlet for disgruntled employees.
“A similar risk that many enterprises are currently dealing with is employee blogging. Some organisations encourage it, others forbid it, and some have no formal policies at all. It’s a two sided coin – on the positive side blogging can build strong communities, brand awareness and transparency; but on the negative side blogging can reveal corporate secrets, arm disgruntled employees and have undesirable consequences.”
