Securing Social Media in the Enterprise

Chapter 6

Conclusion

The technical aspects of social media are really difficult to block completely. The book concludes with the need for cyber security awareness training.

Keywords

Awareness; LinkedIn; Twitter; SlideShare

Here are a couple of lessons to take away:

As a broad concept, the technical aspects of social media are really difficult to block completely, and a number of risks posed by social media are not well understood by most organizations. The standpoint that many take is “well, we’ll block access to all these things on our corporate proxy.” This is fine, but it’s difficult to understand the nuance of this risk, because it doesn’t necessarily stop someone using social media from their own device, right?

At many organizations we’ve ...