How to: Guard corporate secrets in a Web 2.0 world

There's no surefire way to completely eliminate the risk of information leakage in a blogging environment. Due diligence requires an approach that involves defense, detection and deterrence:

-- Re-evaluate whether you need to update your antivirus and malicious-code protection for Web traffic. Consider a combination approach recommended by Gartner Inc. that involves antivirus software, URL filtering, application controls, Web site reputation services and safe search technologies.

-- Establish a blog oversight committee -- a group of fellow-employee bloggers who are committed to promoting blogging within the company and making sure the company's interests are served.

-- Update acceptable-use, ethics, trade-secret and other employee policies to deal with blogs and community sites like MySpace and YouTube.