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The Five-Step Guide to Preventing Social Media Hacks

The proliferation of social media apps presents a unique challenge for companies. Specifically, there are security issues that aren’t being properly addressed, which is why we’re seeing high profile social media account hacks daily. Causing irreparable damage to your brand, and leaving yourteam scrambling to pick up the pieces, companies can no longer afford tosit idle on this issue.

Whether you need guidance on how to secure your social media accounts or just need help improving existing measures, this first aid kit covers the top 5 ways companies can improve security without disrupting employees’ use of social media for your business.

• #1 Centralize Social Media Account Management • #2 End Password Fatigue: SSO to the Rescue • #3 Ensure Password Diversity • #4 Secure Employees’ Personal Social Media Accounts • #5 Code Red: One–Click Off–Boarding

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• • INTERNAL: Rogue employees hi–jacking social media accounts.

Companies face threats on two fronts: • EXTERNAL: Hackers preying on employees’ lax and unsecure password practices.

The Five-Step Guide to Preventing Social Media Hacks

#1 Centralize Social Media Account Management

PROBLEM

of social media apps used

#This is why hackers target these accounts. Without a

centralized app management system, you automatically put your company at high risk.

too many credentials & users to manage

of people who need access

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SOLUTION

• Provide everyone from the CEO to the intern access, without sharing passwords. Companies need one place to manage users, passwords and access for these tools so they can:

• Deliver actionable insight about how many accounts are active and who has access. • On and off board with one click.

The Five-Step Guide to Preventing Social Media Hacks

#2 End Password Fatigue: SSO to the Rescue

SOLUTIONUtilizing Single Sign-On (SSO) technology makes it easy for employees to use stronger passwords and adapt better password behavior. SSO allows users to access social media accounts using their corporate credentials, which results in the following: • Reduces the number of passwords in circulation. • Eliminatestheneedforemployeestorememberdifficultpasswords. • Provides access without employees ever needing to know the password. • Allows administrators to disable access with one–click.

PROBLEM

• Easy to guess passwords • Employees sharing passwords • Employees using one password across all their apps

Top 3 culprits in social media account hacks: 35% of data breaches are caused by negligent employee or contractor behavior

44% of employees change their passwords once a year or less

Source: https://www.privacyassociation.org/publications/how_to_change_employees_poor_password_habits

The Five-Step Guide to Preventing Social Media Hacks

#3 Ensure Password Diversity

Provide administrators seamless access to password auditing data with an automated grading system, so that they can quickly identify at risk users and take immediate action.

SOLUTION

PROBLEMHow many of your employees use the same password for mutliple apps? Most companies cannot answer this question, and worse, they don’t know how to rectify the situation. This is a weak link in any company’s social media security strategy and leaves your company vulnerable.

61% of employees reuse the same password for multiple sites

Source: https://www.privacyassociation.org/publications/how_to_change_employees_poor_password_habits

The Five-Step Guide to Preventing Social Media Hacks

#4 Secure Employees’ Personal Social Media Accounts

PROBLEMHackers target employees’ personal accounts because they know many use the same password for their personal and corporate social media accounts.

Enable your employees to use SSO for their personal apps, while at the same time providing one central place where they can manage their personal apps with the same level of security as their business apps.

SOLUTION

• Increases security by making it harder for hackers to leverage your employee’s personal accounts against your company. • Avoidsembarrassingsocialmediablunderssinceemployeescanefficientlyseparateandaccesstheir personal and corporate accounts.

The Five-Step Guide to Preventing Social Media Hacks

#5 Code Red: One–Click Off–Boarding

PROBLEMThe reality is that every company will have to deal with a rogue employee who hijacks a social media account. And intoday’sworkenvironment,companiesdon’thaveanefficientwaytooffboardemployees.

If a crisis occurs, companies need the capability to revoke access to apps across all devices within minutes. With a centralized application management system, your adminstrators can take immeditate action by off–boarding an employee’s access to their corporate social media accounts across all devices, minimizing the damage.

SOLUTION

The Five-Step Guide to Preventing Social Media Hacks

Bitium is designed for organizations that want to leverage all the flexibility and productivity cloud apps deliver, without compromising security.

We hope this ebook illuminated the steps you can take to secure your social media accounts and inspired you to take action. To learn more about how Bitium can help solve these challenges, please click here.

Bitium empowers companies and people to realize the full potential of web and cloud applications. With Bitium, IT can centrally manage access to apps across all users, while providing employees with one click access to their apps from one place.

Protect your apps and data by eliminating the need to remember multiple passwords for both business and personal apps,andempoweringemployeestousestrongerpasswords.ForIT,Bitiumautomatestheprovisioningworkflowand delivers insight on your entire organization’s app and password usage, so they can take immediate action to improve security.

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The Five-Step Guide to Preventing Social Media Hacks