Even though organizations know that employee use of social media puts their security at risk, many still allow employees to use these networks with little oversight or controls to truly mitigate those risks. That’s according to a new survey conducted on behalf of Websense. The Ponemon Institute survey queried over 4,600 IT decision makers and found that the majority of organizations do not enforce policies if they have them at all. What’s more, leadership mistakenly believes that traditional antivirus solutions are still a cure for the security risks that crop up due to use of social media. Here’s a look at what these IT decision makers said and the disconnect that could put their firms at risk.
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63 percent of respondents believe that employee use of social media puts their organizations' security at risk.
Just under 30 percent of organizations think they have the necessary security controls in place to mitigate or reduce this risk.
Only 35 percent of organizations currently have an acceptable use policy regarding social media.
65 percent of respondents at organizations with a social media acceptable use policy do not enforce it or are unsure of whether they enforce it.
55 percent of respondents think it is okay for employees to use social media on company time to communicate with friends.
11 percent even think it is okay to post uncensored content or blog entries while on the company infrastructure.
89 percent of organizations say that one of the biggest issues cropping up from increased use of social media is diminished employee productivity.
52 percent of organizations reported an increase of malware as a result of increased use of social media in the workplace.
Among those, more than a quarter said malware increased by more than 50 percent.
Even though traditional antivirus does little to inspect social media content as it is created and consumed, 76 percent of organizations cite it as one of the main ways they mitigate risk from social media.
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