The January/February 2007 edition of Messaging News is out. My article, To Use or Not to Use: Security Considerations for Outside-the-Firewall Web Collaboration Services is online, and is in the PDF starting on page 28.

Over the last few years, there has been an explosion of available options in Web-based team collaboration services. It is now very easy to set up a team collaboration space on the Web and begin to work with a roster of distributed project members and colleagues. This explosion of availability raises many questions. For this article, the focus will be: What are the security risks of embracing such a service, and to what degree can one mitigate against those risks?

A free download of the PDF is available (3.4MB, 48 pages).