On any given day, the typical U.S. worker communicates across myriad communications platforms—from text and IM, to social networks like LinkedIn and Twitter and enterprise social software like Jive and Chatter. Coupled with the pervasive habit of the bring your own device (BYOD) phenomenon, companies are regularly exposing themselves to risk, and they often don’t even know it.

As these forms of all-the-time communication continue to pervade organizations—and threaten their viability—compliance concerns continue to escalate among highly regulated companies such as financial and healthcare organizations.