[49313] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How important is IM? was RE: How important is the PSTN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger Marquis)
Thu Jun 27 21:55:52 2002
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:55:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
To: nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020627180212.3CAAC91310@trapdoor.merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Rizzo Frank <frank.rizzo@ghettocolo.com> wrote:
> By "IM" I assume you're referring to Instant Messaging as an ideal, not
> any particular protocol or vendor implementation. Which begs the
> question, is "IM" is a risk
IM has been a risk since it was introduced as the Unix `talk`
program. Responsible corporate security policy should at least
address it. Many such policies, including some I wrote after this
post, have forbidden IM for some time now.
<http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=_jfe4.1731%24T01.55862%40nuq-read.news.verio.net>
Whether blocking IM is a prudent strategy at your organization
depends on the value of the data "messaged", the IM application,
and routing of IM packets. In common use IM does expose many
organizations to a non-trivial risk of corporate espionage.
--
Roger Marquis (ex-CSO)
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/
