According to a survey recently conducted by e-mail filtering firm, SurfControl, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing is rife on the UK's corporate networks, representing a grave danger to the companies in question, which may find themselves being pursued by the recording industry as a result of copyrighted music files downloaded by their staff.
Despite the fact that two-thirds of the 500 IT and human resources (HR) managers polled claimed that their organisation took the prevention of P2P file sharing seriously, around half of the HR officials revealed that they did not yet have a policy on file sharing in the workplace, with a further 23% admitting that they did not know whether or not such a policy existed.
49% of the IT managers questioned by SurfControl admitted that their company does not have the technology in place to minimise the threats P2P file-sharing poses to the corporate and legal reputation as well as network performance and staff productivity.
These results are likely to be especially worrying for UK firms given that a separate survey conducted earlier this month by security service provider Blue Coat Systems revealed that 38.6% of the 300 respondents questioned regularly swap files using their company networks.
Speaking with regard to the survey results, Martino Corbelli, Director of Marketing for SurfControl warned that:
“Companies that do not have a sufficient policy and technology safeguards in place are dropping their guard to a barrage of legal, viral and network problems. It would appear from our survey that the two departments that could make the difference – HR and IT – are not doing enough to take a pre-emptive strike against file-sharing threats."
" If staff are breaking copyright laws by using the company’s network to unlawfully distribute films or music, it’s the company that will be held responsible."
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