Tuesday, February 8, 2011

40% of companies block access to social networks

About 40% of companies block access to social networks in the workplace, according to a Cisco world. In those companies that are allowed access to social networks, employees spend an average of 24 minutes to navigation. Spain is a country where more time is devoted to social networking sites during work hours.

Spanish employees spend an average of 30 minutes a day. United Kingdom and France, 25 and in Germany, 20 minutes. However, compared to the concern that social networks are a distraction at work, the tool is increasingly used by companies, particularly large ones, for internal use and improving communication among employees, as a form of information sharing and learning.

In other pages of the Cisco study considered data security. The volume of spam (unsolicited commercial email) fell in the fourth quarter of 2010. A fact that helped this decline is the location or blocking of several botnets (networks of zombie computers) used for distribution. Among the total botnets, or partially fallen, are Lethic, Waledac, Spanish Butterfly and Zeus.

August was a branch of Pushdo and fell in the fourth quarter and Koobface Bredolab networks. The closure of sites devoted to spam was a decline in unwanted commercial messaging, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry. The main countries of origin of spam are the United States, Russia, India, Brazil and Vietnam.

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