0 Best practices for Business Instant Messaging or Corporate IM enable productive instant messaging within a secure and compliant framework. Business managers, IT staff, and corporate IM users must work together to establish balanced policies and enforcement tools to minimize security risks while ensuring maximum benefit. Best practices for business IM consists of five specific practices: • Discovery – Explore and document the organization’s current IM assets, policies, and needs, as well as your current IT infrastructure. • Create written policies – Clearly and explicitly define acceptable and unacceptable use of instant messaging within the business environment. • Implement security technology – Implement client and network...

0 Business Instant Messaging Risks: Compromised Security, Compliance Violations, and Legal Liability Business Instant messaging rapid evolution from personal entertainment to workplace tool, combined with ignorance of how IM works, means that most IM users are unaware of the risks that IM poses to the organization. Public IM systems operate in the open where other people may be able to eavesdrop. Additionally, IM systems, both public and proprietary, often operate beyond the range of corporate firewalls and other security systems. IM risks include: •Information leaks – Confidential materials, intellectual property, or proprietary information can be revealed, either intentionally or accidentally, through IM sessions or file...

0 Business Instant Messaging or “chat” systems, such as the early proprietary versions of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), and the public Internet Relay Chat (IRC), have been available since the late 1980s, the first “true” IM system—one with a simple interface and contact (or “buddy”) lists that operated over the open Internet—didn’t emerge until the release of ICQ in 1996. The following year AOL released a publicly available version of its AIM client, enabling its 20 million users to connect in real time with the rest of the Internet. In subsequent years, others, including Microsoft and Yahoo, released their own IM clients. Features such as file transfer, emoticons, and audio and video were added, and personal IM use reached...

1 Business Instant Messaging or Corporate Instant Messaging is a flourishing Industry, following Article will give you an overview of Business Instant Messaging, its scope and some of the must do measures to ensure the security of your Business Instant Messaging Services or Solution that you are using. Nowadays many Corporate Business are looking for a Best, secure and reliable Business Text or Instant Messaging Programs, Services and Solution, whether the business is small or large, often people tend to purchase the cheapest deals, or even go for the free deals and neglect the security Risks Involved. These Articles will Comprehensively discuss the different dimensions of Business Instant Messaging. Developed in the 1990s for personal chat...