Ok here’s some recent Tech Support news for you. Just read an article, that makes me a little nervous. Ok maybe alot nervous. It’s like every time you think your network is protected like Ft. Knox you find out, maybe not so much. We all know there’s risk in using Social Media while at work. But, do you really know the numbers? It seems there’s a bit of a double-edged sword you need to be aware of. Data loss and leakage are very possible (Ouch!)
This week came a somewhat unusual report, compiled by the global consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. It surveyed more than 9,000 executives in over 130 countries and found them confident in their ability to secure their information systems and bullish about cybersecurity spending. In the survey, released Thursday, 43 percent of respondents said they had confidence in their security protocols and 50 percent said they expected their companies to spend increasing amounts of money on cybersecurity.
Even as the use of social networks has proliferated, barely one in three respondents said their companies had a policy governing their employees’ use of tools like Facebook and LinkedIn. Social media, the report’s authors concluded, is a double-edged sword for many companies.
“It’s a great business opportunity,” Mark Lobel, a principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said by phone. “It’s also a terrible avenue for data loss and data leakage.”
This bears further looking into. To read the entire article from The New York Times, click here. It’s certainly a story we’ll be following.
