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6 Tips For Securing Social Media In The Workplace
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ShawnB287
ShawnB287,
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5/20/2014 | 1:05:32 PM
Secure your social
Thanks John for this post. I especially like the point about posting details to LinkedIn It's frightening how many organizations do not consider social media an organizational threat.  
JohnPirc
JohnPirc,
 User Rank: Author
5/22/2014 | 2:40:19 PM
Re: Secure your social
Thank you Shawn. This point was tied to an actual use case. The amount of data you can mine within LinkedIn isn't only tied to M&A but also employee moral.  When I typically get request to provide recommendations, usually shortly after I gave the recommendation they left their job for another opportunity. Again, I appreciate your commnets.
Bprince
Bprince,
 User Rank: Ninja
5/30/2014 | 11:05:21 AM
Re: Secure your social
The point about LinkedIn I think was just brought home by the situation with the Iranian hackers. It is important for organizations, particularly defense and financial organizations, not to underestimate how much social networking sites can be used for the purposes of recon for attackers.

BP
cumulonimbus
cumulonimbus,
 User Rank: Apprentice
5/20/2014 | 5:34:19 PM
Social media corporate policy
If you think that bad news travels 10x as fast as good, then perhaps a good social media policy is minimalistic? I agree that companies need a "firm but fair" policy for social media, and to educate on the downside. I have seen corporate policies that attempt to limit access to certain sites using third party taxonomy, but I am not sure this works as a moral quotient. In the end it comes down to exercising good judgement through emotional intelligence. Thanks for a great article.
JohnPirc
JohnPirc,
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5/22/2014 | 2:31:49 PM
Re: Social media corporate policy
Thank you this is great insight.
PaulS681
PaulS681,
 User Rank: Apprentice
5/20/2014 | 7:03:11 PM
Training
Training to backup the company policy is a must. You can put all you want in the policy, people just are not going to read it. You could say that it's their problem if they don't read it but it can make major headaches for IT staff if they do something they shouldn't. Training and talking about it helps alot. Keep the training short and to the point, don't get to technical and you can make your job easier.
Marilyn Cohodas
Marilyn Cohodas,
 User Rank: Strategist
5/21/2014 | 2:44:15 PM
Re: Training
Finding the happy medium of training that is not too technical or too long -- yet still is effective -- sounds like a pretty tall order. Does anybody want to share their best practices (or lessons learned)? 
PaulS681
PaulS681,
 User Rank: Apprentice
5/22/2014 | 8:00:14 AM
Re: Training
It's so easy to say but much harder to do. You have to put time aside for this. That is the toughest part. Real world examples would help. Many that post things about the company don't even realize it, and unless you show them hard examples, they may not get it.

Some kind of interactive piece would also help... Even if that is just asking questions, Get them involved somehow.
jpizzle
jpizzle,
 User Rank: Apprentice
5/22/2014 | 6:58:32 AM
Re: Training
Thank you Paul! I couldn't agree with you more.
Marilyn Cohodas
Marilyn Cohodas,
 User Rank: Strategist
5/22/2014 | 4:04:26 PM
Re: Training
I do think that today most employees today are aware of the risks from social media in the workplace (and at home) but it's easy to fall into bad practices. Technology solutionsn like using Web browsers with high malware block rates seem to me like a no brainer from the IT side. And putting the onus on employees to avoid location-based social media on their corporate mobile devices doesn't seem to onerous. LinkedIn, on the other hand, would require more of an effort in user education. 
stuartjacklin
stuartjacklin,
 User Rank: Apprentice
9/19/2014 | 3:04:50 AM
Opinion
It's necessary to use Social media websites and Gmail securely on work .The most important thing that can be done is frequently change your passwords and use of  secure browsers can help you to protect your data .

 

www.pitchussocial.com


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