Companies can strengthen their computer networks against hacking attacks and data breaches, but their defenses won't work as well if employees are circumventing them. Yet companies often unintentionally inspire just such behavior by limiting how much e-mail their employees can send, receive, and store.
That's because employees who face tight limits on the size of their mailboxes tend to merely work around the restrictions. For instance, they might send and receive files through their personal Web mail accounts or through Web file-transfer sites. Using the public Internet could make it more likely for the information to be stolen, and there are consequences beyond hacking, too: once data leaves a company's control, it can be harder to restore it after a disaster or to find it during audits or lawsuits.
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Author: BRIAN BERGSTEIN
