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"What the bad guys are doing [is] using that as a vector to spread malware, because the company's web site will host code that will be then used to attack other customers."
Education at the Core
Henry Stern, senior security researcher at Cisco Systems and one of the authors of Cisco's annual security report, said social networks are significant to communication in business today.
"The feeling I have gotten from talking to customers is that social networks are an important communication tool, and they will become one of the features [businesses] will advertise because they are ubiquitous, and trying to cut this off will only cause people to find ways to get around it," Stern said. "Banning access at work does not solve that problem, but education will help mitigate it."
Cisco suggests a number of things that businesses can do to educate workers. Companies need to educate employees to be more suspicious of people who send friend requests. They need to be sure they are only granting permission to people they actually know. Employees also need to be careful about what they click on when they are sent messages and attachments from friends.
"We would like organizations to train users to become trained skeptics," Stern said.
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Posted: 2010-07-07 @ 7:45am PT
Social media apps can be a useful tool that an organization or an individual can use to promote a brand, product, cause or presence. When used inappropriately - and without a social media strategy and policy in place - accessing social media sites pose risk to network security and privacy. Palo Alto Networks has come up with three new whitepapers that allow businesses and IT departments to safely enable the use of social media sites, specifically Enterprise 2.0 apps like Twitter, Facebook and SharePoint, in the office.
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