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How to make Facebook secure for organizational use: no more excuses! - Trends in the Living Networks

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Financial market traders started using IM because it was useful, but banks were concerned about security and audit trails. Services then became available that provided secure, auditable IM. This is turning out to be a very similar story to instant messaging in financial services. The same thing is happening with social networks.

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