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Survey highlights IM threats
Monday, 28 June 2004 15:39 ESTInstant Messaging (IM) is opening up enterprises to major security risks as the application grows into an important business tool, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Information Security Forum (ISF). Resellers should be closing the loopholes found on customer networks as a result of unregulated IM use, the report claimed. Adrian Davis, ISF project manager, said IM has become far more than a recreational messaging tool. "It now includes file transfer and conferencing facilities, and is used for a range of important business purposes such as e-commerce, financial trading and IT support," Davis said.
He added that the market is still immature and there are few industry-wide standards or interoperability between services, applications and add-on products.
The report cited poor identity management, weak user authentication, inadequate logging and limited encryption as problems with most IM applications.
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