There's no hotter trend in background screening than social media. But just as social networks can be used to screen applicants - they also can be abused.
Employment Screen Resources' Lester Rosen says there's no hotter trend in background screening than social media. But just as social networks can be used to screen applicants, they also can be abused.
When it comes to sizing up the privacy agenda for 2011, the tone at the top of organizations is all about improving data security, says privacy expert and lawyer Lisa Sotto.
Cyber criminals typically will move on to a target that is much less secure but those behind advanced persistent threats will spend months if not years trying to penetrate an IT system until they succeed, says Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee Labs threat research vice president.
Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee Labs threat research vice president, discusses the company's annual threat predictions, saying: "We are seeing an escalating threat landscape in 2011."
"If you at all have any inclination of allowing Internet access in your company networks, you need a social media policy," says Hemu Nigam, former CSO at MySpace.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has become akin to a "cyber messiah," Hemu Nigam says. And Assange's followers have proven: "If you turn your back on our messiah, we are going to take you down."
One-third of students who gave up social media for a week say they felt less stressed by not having to compulsively check updates and posts on social networks.
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