What to look for in secure collaboration tools

28.10.2011

During this same time frame, a growing number of consumer technologies began making their way into corporate environments, like peer-to-peer (P2P) services then enable users up against a tight deadline to send an email that the corporate email system rejected as too large.

Today personal and tablets are penetrating the workplace in increasing numbers. Included on these devices are often free and low cost consumer apps that employees have downloaded for personal use.

Business users are quickly embracing the anytime, anywhere data access that these devices offer. They're accessing email, file sharing and other collaboration services from almost any device, , which few enterprises have authorized for use.

Employees need to do their jobs; IT needs to equip them to do so by offering "whitelisted" or approved apps that answer the same need, while providing IT the necessary control and insight over corporate data. [Also see: ""]