Duration
60 minutes

in association with

Topic: Unified Communications: A Pandora's box of business benefits, but what are the real security risks involved?

	Panelists
Steve Gold,  Infosecurity Magazine Moderator	Nick Sears,  Vice President, EMEA,  FaceTime Communications	Julian Datta, Partner Technology Specialist, Microsoft UK	Andrew Yeomans, Board Member, Jericho Forum

Description:
Unified Communications in the shape of on-demand online conferencing, digital voice services, instant messaging and 'presence' services are changing the way we all do business. You can now truly remain in contact whilst in, around and out of your office, enjoying all of the desktop facilities on a mobile, a PDA or a laptop. You are no longer tied to your desk.

But what about the security issues associated with this new-found freedom? How do hard-pressed IT managers handle this brave new world of on-demand, highly mobile communications?

Growing numbers of companies are choosing to deploy their Unified Communications systems on the same platform as the rest of their IT resource, but what are the security implications? Is it not better to use an out-sourced approach? And how does this mesh in with the governance issues of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US and the 2006 Companies Act in the UK?

This Webinar will:

• Seek to answer these questions and more
• Examine the pros and cons from a business and a security perspective of moving from a linear communications system to a multi-faceted Unified Communications architecture
• Discuss new security methodologies that need to be applied to this next generation business communications platform
• Explain how the benefits of adopting a Collaborative Oriented Architecture approach can be maximised, without increasing the risks of modern multi-vectored malware and associated attacks that hacker criminals are devising.