Social media – Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are an integral feature of our daily life. It is relied upon for various purposes by governments, individuals and organisations. Therefore, it is important to protect your accounts from being or accessed by unauthorised persons. This will ensure that your general cyber security is not compromised.
However, there have been reported cases of hackers using social media to snake their way into the entire cyber network of an organisation, stealing vital information, and releasing it to the public. Such an organisation may lose their market position due to the hack. To ensure that hackers do not have unauthorised access or spy on your network through social media despite foolproof protection, here are measures that must be undertaken to stop these attacks.
Don’t block new media
Many organisations block social media to ensure that staff fully concentrate on their task. However, many of these workers are social media junkies as they cannot do without it. The workers search for different ways to unblock social media which may lead them to adopt some underlying tactics that may leave the cyber security of the organisation very vulnerable to hackers. It’s advisable to allow partial access to social media rather than a 100% entree as some workers may abuse it.
Ensure ethical use of social media
There are ethical ways to use social media which many are not aware of. They put up posts that may attract cyber criminals to your network. It’s necessary for every social media savvy individual to understand and learn the correct usage of social media as any carelessness may invite hackers into your network. They will not hesitate to steal credit card and other sensitive information. Hackers are always snooping and prodding online. So, they don’t temporise to exploit any loophole.
Compact organisational network security
The security of social media is not guaranteed. The account of high profile personalities and organisations have been and confidential information released to the public. This is not because they were nonchalant with their accounts but as a result of the questionable security of social media. This said the organisation must have a solid cyber security to prevent attacks in case, that of social media fails.
