From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 4 Communication and Network Security

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Multimedia collaboration

Multimedia collaboration

From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 4 Communication and Network Security

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Multimedia collaboration

- [Mike] Businesses and consumers alike now widely use many multimedia collaboration technologies to help them connect with colleagues, friends, and customers around the world in real time, and by a variety of methods including text, voice, and face-to-face. While these technologies do provide powerful communication tools, security professionals must ensure that the technologies used in their organizations provide adequate security controls. The most basic form of multimedia collaboration began with the instant messaging protocols popular in the 1990s. Services like AOL Instant Messenger allowed simple text-based communication in real time with anyone else using the service around the world. These services quickly found their way into the workplace, but there they raised a variety of alarms for security professionals. The service might've been convenient, but it was also completely outside the control of the IT department…

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