Once upon a time, instant messaging was a consumer technology. That consumer toy worked its way into the corporate network and was eventually not just accepted, but embraced and leveraged as a valuable tool. Social networking is on that same path, but still has some security growing pains to go through on the way.
nCircle conducted a survey of 257 information security professionals regarding social media in the enterprise, and found:
• 59 percent maintain a social media policy
• 39 percent of respondents' organizations ban social media use
• 46 percent of respondents were unsure if their employees comply with social media policy
"Even though almost 40% of respondents ban employee social media use, this type of policy is a knee-jerk reaction to the serious security risks associated with social media and is not necessarily effective," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations for nCircle. "The real security concern when it comes to social media is what employees are divulging via their social networking activity and how that affects the security of their employer."
It is a sign of how far social networking has already woven itself into the corporate fabric that nearly 60 percent of those surveyed have a social media policy in place. However, the 46 percent who aren't paying attention might not find a recent Webroot survey very comforting.
Webroot's second annual survey of social networking practices gathered information from 1,100 social networking users, and found:
• 61 percent include their birthday
• 52 percent include their hometown
• 17 percent make their cell phone available.
• More than three quarters (77 percent) don't restrict who can access their photo albums.
• 81 percent don't place any restrictions on who can see their recent activity, including updates generated by geo-location-based tools that report where their users are visiting.
Combining the two surveys results in some privacy and security concerns for those 46 percent. In the nCircle survey, 41 percent have no social media policy, and 46 percent aren't monitoring compliance with the social media policy they do have. That adds up to 87 percent of corporate networks being put at risk by the personal information being shared by employees on social networks.
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http://www.computerworld.in/articles/social-networking-exposes-business-networks-risk
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nCircle conducted a survey of 257 information security professionals regarding social media in the enterprise, and found:
• 59 percent maintain a social media policy
• 39 percent of respondents' organizations ban social media use
• 46 percent of respondents were unsure if their employees comply with social media policy
"Even though almost 40% of respondents ban employee social media use, this type of policy is a knee-jerk reaction to the serious security risks associated with social media and is not necessarily effective," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations for nCircle. "The real security concern when it comes to social media is what employees are divulging via their social networking activity and how that affects the security of their employer."
It is a sign of how far social networking has already woven itself into the corporate fabric that nearly 60 percent of those surveyed have a social media policy in place. However, the 46 percent who aren't paying attention might not find a recent Webroot survey very comforting.
Webroot's second annual survey of social networking practices gathered information from 1,100 social networking users, and found:
• 61 percent include their birthday
• 52 percent include their hometown
• 17 percent make their cell phone available.
• More than three quarters (77 percent) don't restrict who can access their photo albums.
• 81 percent don't place any restrictions on who can see their recent activity, including updates generated by geo-location-based tools that report where their users are visiting.
Combining the two surveys results in some privacy and security concerns for those 46 percent. In the nCircle survey, 41 percent have no social media policy, and 46 percent aren't monitoring compliance with the social media policy they do have. That adds up to 87 percent of corporate networks being put at risk by the personal information being shared by employees on social networks.
For More Read....
http://www.computerworld.in/articles/social-networking-exposes-business-networks-risk
Web Design, Graphic design
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