Research and Markets - Companies Need to Raise Employee Awareness Regarding Blogging and Associated Threats

November 11, 2004; 12:00 AM

November 11, 2004 - (PromotionWorld) - Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c8959) has announced the addition of Web Logs: Blog Threat Management to their offering.

Blogging is rapidly emerging as a threat to Internet users. A blog (short for weblog) is a personal journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or reflect the purpose of the Web site that hosts the blog. While blogs have a legitimate use, online journals pose serious threats to enterprise confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Blogs are potentially contributory to regulatory non-compliance in that blogs may not be documented communications and may also violate privacy considerations.

This presentation is designed for distribution to employees to raise their awareness of the importance of using extreme caution if and when it becomes necessary to visit blogs as part of the employee's job performance.

This presentation provides specific information about how employees can reduce the risks associated with blogging and also at the end of the presentation there are three versions of a web log or blog policy.

Contents of this report presentation include:
- Introduction
- Notice to Clients
- Blog Policies & Procedures Needed
- What is a Blog?
- Who Uses Blogs?
- Why Do Employees Use Blogs?
- Why Companies are Vulnerable to Blogging
- When Do Employees Use Blogs?
- Is Blog Use A Risky Behavior for the Enterprise?
- Home, Office Blog Linkage
- Interne Crime Overview: These Entities Can Scan
-- Blogs, in Addition to the Crimes Noted
- Three Acceptable Use Policy Variants for Blogging and Bloggers
- Blog Acceptable Use Policy: ZERO TOLERANCE
- Blog Acceptable Use Policy: LIMITED USE
- Blog Acceptable Use Policy: PERMISSIONED USE