Every company defines and enforces policies concerning the acceptable use of information and information systems.  Failure to do so can leave a company vulnerable to the financial, legal and reputational risks associated with such unacceptable uses as copyright infringement, sexual harassment, spam and malicious hacking.

Policing such policies, however, is not easy.  Your systems and network administrators have plenty of work to do besides keeping tabs on how your employees are using your company’s computing infrastructure.  They don’t have a whole lot of time to devote to keeping pornography, illegally obtained downloads and other contraband off of your file servers and out of your email system.

Vivisimo’s Information Optimization (IO) solutions, however, are really useful for such policy enforcement efforts.

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