Corporations and small business struggle to ensure their reputation, client information, intellectual property, and business information is secured within their company. What can business do to protect their critical information from being shared over social networking services.
1. Can we have compliancy around social networking as a business function? Stuart R. Crawford Bulletproof InfoTech 403.206.2233 stuart.crawford@bulletproofIT.ca
3. Right and Wrong Takes A Whole New Meaning What are the risks today? Are compliance officers embracing Social Media Social Media is here to stay, the platforms are here to stay Data and Privacy protection data leaks, data breaches or reputational damage
4. What Is Really Private Online? How do online privacy regulations apply? Beyond the courts Beyond the IT Pro How are privacy regulations interpreted? By staff By managers By executives By shareholders
5. What Do Business Owners Need To Be Aware Of? Government regulations PIPEDA HIPAA Industry regulations EUB Securities regulations Sarbanes-Oxley How do these government and industry regulations impact the use of social media in today’s business?
6. But Really, What Can Happen? Can employees share private patient information online? Can your staff email confidential information to a competitor? Can your press release be leaked and impact share price? Threats have always been here! What is so different today? Does Social Media really cause concern?
9. Can We Really Enforce Corporate Policy Outside The Office
10. How Does Business Enforce Compliancy Today? They block it! Is this the correct move? What do these actions cause? Does it really stop the use?
11. What Can Business Really Do? Google Alerts Monitor anything in the public domain Have employees register Blogs Twitter Facebook Social networking acceptable use policy
12. Does It Really Work? If someone wants to write about your business they will Mini-microsoft blog Enforcement may not work Passive monitoring, auditing and sampling may work How do you control your corporate identity?
13. What Next? Social Media is not going away Business has faced these challenges in the past, but it wasn’t as easy Electronic data is continuing to grow Challenges around compliance will increase “If you list your company's name or write about what you do, it affects the company.” Doug Cornelius compliance officer, ComplianceBuilding.com
14. Your Acceptable Social Networking Use Policy All organizations must have a handbook with clear rules around social networking when the employee starts Clear expectations Privacy Confidential information Trade secrets Sign off a must
15. Start Passive Monitoring Now Use Google Alerts RSS feeds Email subscriptions Random searches Auditing of employee blogs, facebook and twitter accounts Encourage and welcome formal and informal discussions with social media
16. Something To Understand As Joe Rogan’s character on Newsradio once quite accurately quipped, "Dude, you can’t take something off the Internet.. that’s like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool." Once your business data, IP, press releases, client information and other is out there, it is out there.