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Outlook Web Access: Your Company's Vulnerable Backdoor

Overview Companies are relying on web-based technologies like Microsoft's Outlook Web Access to provide anytime anywhere access to email and information to their employees. The biggest win for the company is that by using this web based technology, the company can significantly boost employee productivity without requiring each user to have a dedicated laptop owned and managed by the company. Unfortunately with this ubiquitous access come security challenges. The fact that the email is being accessed and stored on unmanaged computers creates potential exposure for the corporation.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Symantec
Live Date	9th January 2007 21:11 GMT
Format	Webcast
Topics	Security Management, Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing, Network Security

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