Intellectual Property Theft Has Never Been Easier - Is your enterprise protected?

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Viruses Viruses have proven to be another highly effective method of extracting information from corporations. Virus writers can write simple programs that, once executed on your network, mine for all sorts of data and send information back torepparttar virus writer, or to any other recipient.

Severance Package, Indeed While your employees are your greatest asset, they haverepparttar 105302 potential to be your greatest liability as well. A disturbing, but not entirely surprising, fact is that most intellectual property (IP) theft is perpetrated by current and former employees. According torepparttar 105303 U.S. Department of Justice, enterprises suffered $250 Billion in IP Theft in 2004.

A 2004 survey questioned 400 business professionals about their attitudes to IP theft. The research, conducted by Ibas, a computer forensics specialist, revealed some trends that should sound some alarm bells within organizations unsure of their IP security:

  • 69.6% of business professionals have stolen some form of corporate IP from their employer when leaving a job.
  • 32.6% of employees leaving a job took sales proposals and/or presentations with them.
  • 30.4% admitted to taking information such as customer databases and contact information.
  • The most commonly used method for stealing IP is to send electronic copies of documents and files to a personal email account.
  • 58.7% think that taking IP is as, if not more, acceptable as exaggerating an insurance claim to coverrepparttar 105304 excess charge.
  • Only 28.2% think that IP theft is completely unacceptable.
  • The most common justification for IP theft was thatrepparttar 105305 person had createdrepparttar 105306 documents/files stolen and felt they partly belonged to them.
Keep Your IP Where It Belongs – In Your Company Preserving your intellectual property may berepparttar 105307 most important reason to takerepparttar 105308 steps toward a comprehensive email security approach. A solution that incorporates elements of attachment and content filtering, intrusion prevention, encryption, anti-spam and anti-virus isrepparttar 105309 only way to ensure thatrepparttar 105310 digital lifeblood of your company doesn’t find its way intorepparttar 105311 wrong hands.

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6 Strong Reasons Why RSS Beats Email Marketing

Written by Mustafa Khundmiri


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4. Get Your Message Out In An Instant - Whenever you have something new to publish, all you have to do is update your already published feed and your message gets updated everywhere it’s subscribed. No more worrying if your subscribers got your message or not.

5. Never Get Accused of Spam - It’s very easy to get accused of sending unsolicited mail nowadays since people forget they even gave you their email address. RSS solves this problem completely, asrepparttar messages which you send out, will appear directly in your subscribers RSS reader. Sorepparttar 105301 question of contacting them illegally does not even arise.

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