Social media is all the rage. Organizations use it for
customer service, marketing, and sales generation. However,
there are significant potential risks from the use of social
media:
- Leakage of confidential information or intellectual
property
- Exposure to legal liability and financial penalties from
compliance breaches
- Malware spread through social media compromises network
security
Actiance conducts annual surveys of IT users and how they use Web 2.0 applications like
IM, blogs, and social media sites. Some highlights include:
- Use of social media found in 100% of organizations
- More than 90% of users report having profiles on more than
one of the social networks
- 66% logged in to a social media site at least once a
day
- 79% of respondents said their organization had a corporate
page on Facebook, 61% on LinkedIn, 61% on Twitter, and 46% on
YouTube
Solution: Social Media Security,
Monitoring, and Management
Manage social media effectively by mitigating the risks:
- Manage access to and use of applications within social media
sites
- Moderate, log, and archive content posted to Facebook, LinkedIn,
and Twitter
- Apply granular feature controls for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter,
and YouTube
- Enable Day Zero protection for new features
Actiance's Unified Security Gateway (USG)
is the only Secure Web Gateway to combine feature and content
controls with social media monitoring, management, and
security. It also provides protection for Web 2.0
applications, along with URL filtering, anti-malware, and Web
anti-virus protection.
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