When employees blog on corporate laptops

HEH, good thing I’m officially blogging for INQUIRER.net

Security experts are warning companies about the risks posed by employees who use their corporate laptops and other office-issued mobile devices for blogging.

Here’s an excerpt from the SearchSecurity.com story:

He noted there are approximately 100 million blogs across cyberspace and many of them are used by organized criminal outfits to push gambling and pornography. When an employee does personal blogging on a company machine and corporate email account, blog databases are able to suck in a wealth of email data. Digital miscreants can then use sophisticated data mining software to scan the blogs for proprietary information that may be sitting in some of those stored messages, he said.

“They can analyze millions of messages and use what they find — trade secrets, for example — for hostile purposes,” he said.

Over time, he said, online thieves can take seemingly unimportant details from those blog messages and piece them together in a way that allows them to see the big picture of what a company may be up to.

Ulsch said companies need to start taking the blogging phenomenon more seriously from a security perspective, and that a good starting point is to put a blog restriction policy in place.

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