Written by Richard MacManus, this article about IT fear of Web2.0 is based on a Forrester Research report.

It's a great article, and interestingly timed given where I was last night.

Last night I was at a CEO dinner thing here in Austin and the FBI was there telling us about all the foreign government backed companies (read China) that are conducting economic espionage in the U.S.

Anyway while I think the concern at a national level is overblown (and the solution probably overpriced), it is reasonable as a leader of a company to be cognizant of how you might minimize (reasonably) the risk of trade secret loss to other entities (wherever they are). Web2.0 technologies - any new communication technologies - exacerbate the problem. They just do. That doesn't mean they're bad per se, or that you should ditch the baby with the bathwater, but IT's job is security and you shouldn't prevent them from doing their job.

The article points out that 78% of IT decision makers are concerned about unsanctioned employee web2.0 usage but that big companies have only a few employees using these technologies today.

For a contrary view, take a look at this.

Curt Finch is the author of a book about time tracking and CEO of a timesheet software company