Securing the Clicks Network Security in the Age of Social Media

CHAPTER 6Social Media Security Policy Best Practices

Best practices for social media are still evolving. In the pure security world, many standards are followed, everything from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards to ISO 27001, an Information Security Management System standard. By employing current standards, IT can follow security requirements to secure social media. If you look at social media data as you would any other data stream, you can apply current policy frameworks. For example, to secure communications between the author of your blog posts and the website hosting the blog (assuming you are hosting it), you can enable SSL and require a strong password that gets changed every 90 days. Secure data streams ...