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Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems may
be costing you $$$
Illegally distributed copyrighted materials could cost your
company fines up to $150,000.
In the “Study
Says Employees are Exposing Co-Workers’ Personal Information”,
SecurityInfoWatch.com
(August 22, 2005) article, it stated that over 80% of the
assessments conducted in July 2005 discovered Copyrighted
materials being ‘shared’ through P2P systems.
In addition, P2P was found to be a good tool for industrial
espionage since most applications break up the files into smaller
files that are reassembled at their destination and it makes it
hard to detect what it contains.
In addition, P2P can be harmful to your system, since many
file-sharing programs contain spyware.
What to do
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Update you security policy to include how Peer-to-Peer
communications should be handled.
It should include ‘if’ and ‘when’ the
communication can be used and what can be transmitted.
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Purchase
software that will detect Peer-to-Peer communications or
disable Peer-to-Peer communications.
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See, our
Security Policies web page for information on creating a security
policy.
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