The Rise of Greynets: Unsanctioned End User Applications and Their Impact on Enterprise Security.
Enabling real-time communication has become a core requirement for IT infrastructures. Today's generation of workforce entrants expects instant messaging, Web conferencing, Voice over IP, and social networking to be "always on." The edge of the network is rapidly moving outwards to include the broader community of customers and trading partners, and end users are in the driving seat, bringing these applications into the enterprise without corporate IT consent. FaceTime Communications calls these applications "Greynets."
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This white paper discusses the problems, the risks and the potential of Greynets.