Managed Security Services Blog

The Managed Security Services blog provides insight into how organizations can improve business continuity and enhance efficiency of security operations via a managed services model. Contributing MSS security experts will share their thoughts and experiences on how best to protect IT assets, people and information in the rapidly evolving threat environment.

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  Created: uuallan 16 Jun 2011

  Developing a Social Media Security Strategy

  The current mantra from most business experts seems to be that your organization has to have a social media strategy.  They say you must have a regularly maintained Facebook Page, you must Twitter regularly and you should be using as many social media tools to reach your audience as possible.  If you Google the phrase “social media strategy” you’ll return more than 8.5 million hits.  What no one talks about is the necessary steps to ensure the security of your social media presence. It is not enough to have a social media strategy, you must also have a social media security strategy, and that security must be interwoven into every aspect of your organization’s social media presence.  The fact is, the more social media exposure your organization has the more your security risk increases.  Social media sites are a prime research vehicle and target for today’s attackers, and the more your organization...