“We’ll have to deal with the reality of people coming in and using tools that aren’t in the firewall,” said De Beer [of IDC]. “Web 2.0 empowers users beyond creating content. It’s about how we interact. For the next generation, it will be about mass collaboration, using social networking.”

The key point in this article is that many new applications falling into the Web 2.0 or Enterprise 2.0 bucket cannot be detected by a traditional firewall which means some other means of security needs to be implemented to adequately secure these new applications.

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“All five P2P programs studied employ a feature that lets users store downloaded files in a folder other than the specified default folder the programs create. However, the programs fail to warn users that all files stored in the selected folder will be shared. In most cases, the sharing caused by this feature includes not only the files stored in the designated folder but also all files stored in any of its subfolders, said the report."

The result is that P2P applications can result in the sharing of personal files, corporate date and much more than the music files of interest.

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