How to Tame the Social Network at Work

Dan Tynan wrote this article on protecting sensitive information and corporate trade secrets from being leaked or exposed via social networking sites. The article begins:

“They're a productivity sink and a bandwidth suck. They're a vector for malware and a gift for corporate spies.They're a data spill just waiting to happen. And like it or not, they're already inside your enterprise.

Meet the Social Network. No, not that movie about Mark Zuckerberg -- the real social network, from Facebook and MySpace to Twitter and Flickr, used by your coworkers and colleagues every single day, whether they're officially allowed to or not.”

Tynan goes on to describe the various ways that social media poses a risk to data, and offer some potential solutions. Comments from Zecurion CEO Alexey Raevsky are included, and Zecurion DLP is mentioned as an effective means of guarding data and ensuring it is not leaked or exposed on social networks.

You can read the full article by clicking here.