Applications are the lifeblood of today’s organizations as they allow workers to perform crucial business tasks. When granted access to enterprise networks and the Internet, applications can enable sharing of information within workgroups, throughout an enterprise and externally with partners and customers. Not long ago, when applications were launched only from desktop computers and servers inside the corporate network, data security policies were relatively easy to enforce. However, today’s organizations are grappling with a new generation of security threats. Consumer-driven technology has unleashed a new wave of Internet-based applications that can easily penetrate and circumvent traditional network security barriers.
Better known as “Web 2.0” applications, these new Internet-based communications tools such as Facebook, Twitter and Skype have already achieved widespread penetration inside organizations. Inevitably, these new Internet-based technologies and applications have spawned a new set of challenges for enterprises seeking to secure their networks against malicious threats and data loss. Allowing employees to access Web 2.0 applications has made enforcing data security policies a far more complex problem. Even worse, many businesses have no way to detect, much less control these new applications, increasing the potential for intentional or accidental misappropriation of confidential information.
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