FINRA: Compliance Guide Social Networks, Web 2.0 and Unified Communications

New communications tools such as Social Networks, Instant Messaging and Unified Communications platforms can gain your organization significant competitive advantage, and enable you to make decisions more quickly - even in heavily regulated industries where:

• Compliance demands logging, archiving and retention of records of all business communications;
• Security requires prevention of data leakage and protection from inbound malware;
• The business wants to enable the use of social networks and web 2.0 to drive business and improve communications;

This white paper explores these new communications technologies, while offering advice on how to mitigate the associated risks.