Email remains a major vector of enterprise data loss

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.fiercecio.com/techwatch/story/e-mail-remains-major-vector-enterprise-data-loss/2010-08-31

A new survey of some 261 U.S. enterprises with more than 1,000 employees 
has found that email remains the number one source of data loss risks. 
Indeed, 35 percent of companies say they investigated the exposure of 
confidential information via this medium in the last 12 months. Another 20 
percent say they have terminated an employee for violating company email 
policies while half have disciplined an employee.

Enterprises are taking steps to lower their risk profiles. Thirty-seven 
percent of the surveyed organizations say they employ staffers to monitor 
the content of outbound emails for content that poses possible "legal, 
financial and regulatory" risks, while almost half say they perform 
regular audit of (outgoing) email content.

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