February 16, 2011
Live Webinar: Social Media Risks in the Enterprise - Mitigating Data Loss, Compliance and Discovery Dangers
Our live web seminar series continues on Wednesday, March 9th at 11 AM Pacific Time, 2 PM Eastern Time, with "Social Media Risks in the Enterprise: Mitigating Data Loss, Compliance and Discovery Dangers."
We post here about social media risks, policies and trends fairly regularly here (see the social media category), and our annual research on data loss issues shows that social media channels (including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other sites) are increasingly the source of data breaches (see this post for a video overview of our 2010 findings).
In response, about half of organizations simply prohibit access to popular social media sites. But over the long term, that approach will be less effective as social media becomes more and more ingrained into how companies do business. So our feeling is that companies need to address social media risks in the same way that most of them address email security risks—via a combination of policy and technology.
In addition to data loss and compliance issues, one very new area of concern is the archiving, retention and discovery of social media content. In many cases, social media communications such as corporate tweets, Facebook posts/messages, etc. can be considered business records and could be subject to the same sorts of discovery rules as corporate emails. (See this recent CIO article for an interesting overview and introduction to this topic, "Why Your Records Retention Policy Should Include Social Media").
Our upcoming webinar will have both Robert Cruz, our director of eDiscovery solutions, and Rami Habal, our director of product management and expert on all things DLP, on hand to talk about the many dimensions of social media risk and how you can apply today's security technologies (including cloud-based security solutions) to address these issues.
To register, visit this link—Social Media Risks in the Enterprise: Mitigating Data Loss, Compliance and Discovery Dangers—or simply fill out the form below:
