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Beware the wild west of Web applications

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Michelle Drolet

Web applications – particularly those facilitating collaboration and communication – are a boon to sales, marketing and productivity. Teams work together more effectively, salespeople enjoy better leads and marketing tools and customer service reps can more closely connect with those they serve. All of these gains, though, come at a cost: risk. By their very nature, Web applications circumvent many enterprise security controls. They are designed to enable communication, not security. A paper byfalse