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Affordable IT: Securing Your IM Systems: Page 6 of 6

Companies should also have clear policies regarding the use of an unauthorized IM network. This may not be popular with employees, but in the high stakes game of data security and government regulation, it's necessary.

Michael J. DeMaria is a technology editor based at Network Computing's Syracuse University's Real-World Labs®. Write to him at [email protected].