News pick of the day from Google News... Is Your Blog Leaking Trade Secrets? By Jeffrey Vance While organizations scramble to protect themselves against the next big TJX-style data breach, they're overlooking another risk: social networking. Nearly every organization has an in-house blogger -- officially or not. It doesn't have to be a Mini-Microsoft -- an insider blog often critical of the Microsoft – to pose problems. An enthusiastic employee who's not well-versed on corporate policy, a developer on public message boards, or even a personal blog where the employee occasionally discusses work all pose risks. A recent survey by Forrester Consulting looked at this and other content-security problems. The survey was commissioned by Proofpoint, a provider of email security and data-leak-prevention solutions. The July 2007 survey gathered 308 responses from U.S. companies with 1,000 or more employees. Forrester found that more twenty percent of those surveyed had investigated "the exposure of confidential, sensitive or private information via a blog or message board posting in the past 12 months." "Security and IT professionals are just starting to wake up to blogs and message boards," said Keith Crosley, Proofpoint's director of market development. "The main concern is still outbound email, but these other forms of messaging and networking can't be overlooked." Read the full story