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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 <a title="Blog to Shape Your Brand Equity" href="http://blogsite.com/public/blog/144131" target="_blank">building brand awareness</a>, it also has the potential to reveal company secrets or provide an outlet for disgruntled employees.<blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">“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.”</blockquote> 10 application/xml false blog risks Gartner Web 2.0 risks Using and participating in these online services and communities forces enterprises to relinquish a level of control that they historically would not tolerate. It is forcing enterprises to rethink their security strategies. Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Dosware Team Internet Browser; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 bfrench false true false false true 180617 false false true false false false true 178254 blog blogsite/BlogRisk/web