EdgeWave figured prominently in a recent article in Security Management Magazine about the importance of monitoring social media use.  The article was written by Holly Gilbert and in it she addresses the growth of social media use in the workplace and the risks this can present to organizations.  Gilbert writes that while half of businesses allow personal use of social media at work, only a third of them monitor what is being posted.  She goes on to discuss the technology available to organizations to automatically monitor social media interactions and was able to speak to our own Steve Brunetto about EdgeWave Social and the valuable tools it offers to mitigate the risks social media presents.

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Some of the major points touched on in this timely article include:

  • A discussion of the risks unmonitored social media poses including policy breaches, regulatory violations, legal liability, cyberharrasment, employee productivity loss and others.
  • Focus on EdgeWave Social features that provide granular controls so organizations can accurately enforce usage policies, choosing when, how and what employees can post to social media sites. “Organizations can add to or take away from the list of predefined detections depending on their specific needs and policies, and can even create new rules based on their own dictionary for text matching.”
  • Coverage of Edgewave Social’s seamless integration that filters interactions while keeping the user within the application rather than booting him out,  “EdgeWave Social instead brings up a dialog box that appears to be coming from the site itself when someone attempts to post unauthorized content. ‘It’s totally integrated. It looks like it’s coming from Facebook, or it looks like it’s coming from Twitter, ” says Brunetto.
  • The importance of legal considerations, “Companies must make sure to update their acceptable-use policies as needed to comport with any changes in privacy laws enacted by legislative bodies or any new privacy precedents that arise from decisions in the courts related to social media.”, Gilbert writes.

The article concludes with the admonition that enforcing social media policy is critical. As attorney David Adler, who was quoted in the article, said, “A company’s confidential information can be compromised in a mere second, and once posted to the Web, it can live forever…”

Link to the article:

http://securitymanagement.com/article/monitoring-social-media-use-0012384

 

Courtesy of EdgeWave: http://www.edgewave.com/ & http://blog.edgewave.com/

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A new report from the APWG (the Anti-Phishing Working Group) shows a significant increase in targeted phishing attacks aimed at online gamers from Q3 to Q4 2012. AccordingTargeted Sectors by Industry to the report, since cyber criminals have had years of experience honing their skills in attacks against online banking and commerce systems, they’ve decided to apply those skills to the rich arena of  online game systems,  where in-game commerce opportunities abound.

The goal of these attacks, according to the report, is to gain access to online gaming credentials, which can be sold on the black market. The items held in in-game accounts can actually be sold for cash and victims can even have their real-life identities stolen.

The report also shows that attacks against social media sites have doubled in the last quarter of 2012 Number of Phishing Sites Detected Oct-Dec 2012with financial services being the most targeted sector and payment services running a close second. These growth vectors are not mutually exclusive.

The APWG report shows a monthly decline from April – December 2012 in the number of classic phishing sites, which are phishing sites that require pure social engineering tactics to exploit victims.

However, this decline has made room for attacks that focus on deploying crimeware, which is malware designed to automatically steal credentials and place them in the criminal’s control, and that 75% of this crimeware is comprised of Trojans.  The report cites the growth of malware as extreme during Q4 2012, with as many as 30% of personal computers worldwide becoming infected with malware. One security expert commented that this shift from social engineering phishing exploits to automated exploits is due to the growth of advanced phishing techniques such as geo-IP blocking and malware.  He said, “Phishers are also taking advantage of the availability of non-traditional platforms such as social media and mobile to launch newer types of targeted phishing attacks.”

Read the full report here:
http://docs.apwg.org/reports/apwg_trends_report_Q4_2012.pdf

 

Courtesy of EdgeWave: http://www.edgewave.com/ & http://blog.edgewave.com/

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