It is always interesting to me that corporate and enterprise IT managers love to “lock down” networks to prevent PC users from doing “bad” things on the Web. The surfeit of corporate policies prohibiting personal email accounts, streaming video, etc., are premised at least as much on cost savings as on legal or employee efficiency best practices. And when it comes to social networking services, the same is true, except that those same IT managers have an inordinate fear of a “shared” medium. Two Thirds of Businesses Afraid Social Networking Endangers Corporate Security [Sophos.com].
So what is it about social media that presents dangers to corporate security? Are they at all different from the risks inherent in a networked economy arising from email, chat rooms, and the like? I believe the answers are nothing and no, respectively. So to paraphrase FDR, the only thing corporations have to fear from social media is fear itself.
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