It appears that social networking is everywhere these days, and especially on the enterprise network. We've unveiled an update to our Unified Security Gateway today, which allows IT managers to control, monitor and report on which applications employees are using within Facebook - over 20,000 applications today. We truly believe that social networking can be a productive business tool, and customers are asking for help as they work to understand it and how to apply it to their business.
As the WSJ's Business Technology blog commented, some people are still skeptical of how social networking helps businesses. I know I use LinkedIn as my key address book for professional contacts, and know I would be less productive without it. How are you using social networking to do your job? We've heard from customers in energy, pharmaceuticals and financials among others that their employees are using it - in some cases it's the HR teams to run informal background checks on new hire candidates.
We'll be asking some of these same questions to IT professional at the RSA conference and plan to report back here what we've learned. Speaking of RSA, it didn't get off to a great start for attendees en route from Heathrow. Our own Chris Boyd, Director of Malware Research at FaceTime, blogs and shares photos here on a terrifying flight. Glad to report he's arrived safely in
