Instant messengers are more popular with every year. It is important to have proper policy in company regarding them. There are few ways you can treat IM in your company: ignore their existence, prevent employees from using them or implement corporate instant messenger. The last solution gives opportunity to gain all instant messaging advantages, as well as it makes possible to exclude all the threats connected with such type of communication.
Risk connected with massive, not managed IM in company:
- company data leaks
- virus, trojan, spyware threat
- lack of IM communication monitoring
Advantages of corporate instant messaging:
- managing users accounts
- privileges limitation for certain group of users
- IM communication monitoring within company (statistics)
- centralized and shared contact list and chat history