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Banning social networking sites does not guarantee data safety in workplace — study

CEBU, Philippines - Banning social networking sites in the workplace is now considereda less popular method in promoting productivity andensuring IT security, a recent study revealed.

The study entitled Global IT Security Risks: 2012 showed that companies are most likelyto restrict access to online games, with 71 percent of the IT professionals surveryed saying this was part of their strategy.

The study further revealed that banning social networking sites, on the other hand,is not anymore popular.

The study,conducted by Kaspersky Lab, one of the worlds leading developers of secure content and threat management solutions,was carried out in partnership with B2B International in July 2012. It aims to find out the opinions of IT professionals in medium-sized to large enterprises regarding corporate security solutions, determine their level of knowledge of current threats, and look at how they evaluate risks.

Kaspersky surveyed more than 3,300 senior IT professionals from 22 countries. All respondents had an influence on IT security policy, and a good knowledge of both IT security issues and general business matters (finance, HR, etc.).

The results also covered measures which are directly related to infrastructure security and data safety. For example, 50% of companies have restricted or prohibited the use of file exchange services, and 47 percent have enforced similar rules for connecting external devices to work computers.

More worrying, though, 43 percent of IT specialists have already faced deliberate or accidental data leakage due to employee actions. This significant figure suggests there is insufficient control in terms of storing and communicating corporate information.

Of this figure, 42 percent of the respondents said that cybercrime will become a bigger concern in the next two years. This is more than likely to happen considering the increasing number of malicious programs and the emergence of new types of attack.

Half as many of the professionals surveyed believed there would be an increase in other IT risks: intellectual property theft and industrial espionage scored 19 percent each, while those foreseeing future risks coming from computer fraud amounted to 16 percent of the respondents.

Among the other IT security risks cited were intellectual property theft (31 percent), computer fraud (26 percent) and industrial espionage (24 percent).

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September 29th, 2012

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Social media as job recruitment tool, up in 2012

In this Jan. 28, 2011 file photo, the exterior view of LinkedIn headquarters is shown in Mountain View, Calif.

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With the growth of social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, as well as lesser-known sites Upspring, PerfectBusiness and Cofoundr professional networking with the use of social media as a recruitment tool is becoming more prominent.

Most employee recruiters 92 percent currently use, or plan to use, social media and networking sites for job recruiting this year, according to the Jobvite 2012 Social Recruitment Survey. This is a 3 percent increase from 2011 and 10 percent increase from 2010.

The most-used social media site, when it comes to recruitment and hiring, is LinkedIn: 89 percent of U.S. businesses have made a hire through it, compared to Facebook at 26 percent and Twitter at 15 percent.

"Social media, on the whole, is becoming a medium for work as well as play," as quoted in a report, "The Impact of Social Media," in 2011 from Nigel Wright Recruitment, a U.K.-based search firm with international influence to help connect highly qualified job candidates with businesses.

The report emphasizes how social networking is changing the nature of recruitment and how "essentially, companies and recruiters need to be where their candidates are in order to engage them in the recruitment process."

Finding someone to hire is becoming less labor intensive, and for those seeking jobs, "what used to take a tremendous amount of legwork on the part of the candidate can now be done through a quick search on the web," Chirag Nangia, CEO of Reppify said in a Q&A for Forbes.com. Reppify is a San Francisco-based business that helps companies find people to hire with the use of social media data.

Though applying and hiring can take place simply by sitting behind a computer, there are still things both parties have to do for the Internet, and specifically social media, to be an effective tool in job recruitment.

Chirag offers three recommendations to job seekers when it comes to their social media: Keep professional profiles up to date and complete, engage in online communities reflecting topics the candidate is passionate about, and network with professional connections on LinkedIn.

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September 28th, 2012

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Pew study: News consumption increasing via mobile, social media

Social-networking sites grew from 9 percent to 19 percent as a source for news in the last two years, but only 3 percent of respondents say they regularly get news from Twitter.

The Internet is continuing to erode TV, radio, and newspapers as the source of news for Americans. According to thelatest Pew Research Center surveycovering the changing news landscape,the proliferation of mobile devices and social networks is accelerating the shift to online news consumption.In the survey, 39 percent said that they got their news online, up from 33 percent two years ago.

Only TV surpasses online as a news source today. Among 18- to 29-year-olds, one-third watched some TV news, down from 49 percent in 2006.Among those under 30, only 13 percent read a digital or print newspaper, while 33 percent viewed news on a social network and 34 percent saw some news on TV.

A majority of those surveyed (64 percent) said they preferred news sources that didn't espouse a specific point of view, while 26 percent wanted news from sources sharing their political viewpoint.Yahoo, Google, CNN, local news, and MSN were the top five online news sources named among the respondents.

Social-networking sites as a source for news grew from 9 percent to 19 percent in the last two years. Among the social-networking sites, 13 percent of respondents got some news from Twitter, and Twitter users are avid consumers of news.Only 9 percent of the Twitter users said they tweeted or retweeted regularly, which was a similar active user percentage to other social-networking sites.

However, only 3 percent of those surveyed overall said that they regularly get news from Twitter, up from 2 percent in 2010. The percentage of the public that sees news on social-networking sites such as Facebook, Google+, or Twitter increased from 29 percent in 2010 to 47 percent in 2012.

The 18- to 24-year-old demographic consumes the least amount of news, which is not unexpected, with e-mailing, texting, and using social networks ranking as their top activities, according to the survey. Overall, 41 percent of those surveyed use social-networking sites.

News coming out of the nation's capitol was not among the top news subjects among younger people. Just 43 percent said they followed news from Washington, D.C., very or fairly closely, and 57 percent said they don't follow it too closely or not at all.

Pew Research Center's biennial news consumption survey was fielded May 9 through June 3, 2012, among 3,003 adults.

September 28th, 2012

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Pew study: News consumption up via mobile, social media