GoSecure Protect Your Privacy and Let You Staying Secure Online

In today’s increas­ingly com­mu­nica­tive world, busi­nesses face a dilemma. They have to find ways to be more engag­ing and com­mu­ni­cate more directly to their cus­tomers and the pub­lic, while retain­ing close con­trol of sen­si­tive information.

Before I going fur­ther, I would like you watch below this video first, after that, con­tin­u­ing read this arti­cle till fin­ish and then you will know why I ask you watch it first. The inspi­ra­tion of cre­ate this video is come from after I read the arti­cle that posted on GoSecure’s blog.

As you know, the most con­ve­nient way for both orga­ni­za­tions and their cus­tomers to share infor­ma­tion has been through blogs. Just by look at around cyber world, you can see it’s hard to find a major cor­po­ra­tion that doesn’t have a host of blogs on dif­fer­ent sub­jects. The aim­ing that they use blog­ging is intend to get more rel­e­vant con­tent about their prod­ucts or ser­vices out to the mar­ket­place faster and more effectively.

Because of the pop­u­lar­ity of blogs, web-based social net­works, such as LinkedIn, Face­book and Twit­ter are wav­ing in. To let your con­tent dis­trib­ute to the entire inter­net fast, the devel­op­ers are start to develop those appli­ca­tions that allows you to link up your blog post with other social media net­work sites.

For instance, you linked your LinkedIn account to your Face­book account to Twit­ter and beyond, any­thing you post to any one of the ser­vices will imme­di­ately be fed­er­ated or syn­di­cated to the others.

Accord­ing to Nielsen Online’s March arti­cle Social Networking’s New Global Foot­print, time spent in “mem­ber com­mu­ni­ties” accounts for one of every eleven min­utes online.

And the study of Pew Inter­net & Amer­i­can Life study stats that One in five inter­net users are now on Twit­ter or another sta­tus update ser­vice. Some 19% of inter­net users now say they use Twit­ter or another ser­vice to share updates about them­selves, or to see updates about oth­ers. This inter­ac­tive mar­ket­ing method looks like great way for orga­ni­za­tion toward their online mar­ket­ing effort.

How­ever, the dis­tinc­tion that used to exist between blog post­ing and updat­ing your sta­tus on LinkedIn is fad­ing. Each sta­tus update to your Twit­ter account becomes the lat­est entry in a rolling blog of your life.

For the most part, the inter­con­nected aspect of social net­work­ing is a ben­e­fit (who wants to update 20 net­works with their lat­est sta­tus?), but if it is in the hands of the care­less, then you will face the danger.

For exam­ple, if you use social net­work­ing sites purely for busi­ness pur­pose, but in your busi­ness social net­work, there some peo­ple use it as per­sonal base, once they update their sta­tus, the notes will get quickly exchanged from a net­work that intended for per­sonal use to your busi­ness social net­work, this mix of the groups could cause problems.

“Friends” that you once had at com­pany A might now work­ing for your com­peti­tor at com­pany B. When the rela­tion­ships you have in your online com­mu­ni­ties get tan­gled you need to exer­cise cau­tion in what you share or the con­se­quences might hurt your com­pany and/or your career.

Social Media’s rise in pop­u­lar­ity has cre­ated some very real prob­lems for the Inter­net and its users. Social net­works like Face­book and Twit­ter have seem­ingly opened the flood­gates to secu­rity trou­bles, and over the past few weeks, this has been accen­tu­ated by a num­ber of issues and stud­ies. Like recent FBI warns of social net­work­ing fraud, mal­ware esca­la­tion .

Based on a study from Rus­sell Herder and Ethos Busi­ness Law, time on social net­work­ing sites has increased by 73% in the past year. With­out even tak­ing secu­rity into con­sid­er­a­tion, 51% of exec­u­tives sur­veyed said they fear social media could reduce employee pro­duc­tiv­ity, while 49% said that using social media could dam­age a company’s reputation.

Another study recently released by CMO Coun­cil and AVG. It indi­cates that most social net­work users fail to per­form the fol­low­ing basic secu­rity mea­sures on a reg­u­lar basis:

- Chang­ing pass­words (64% infre­quently or never)

- Adjust­ing pri­vacy set­tings (57% infre­quently or never)

- Inform­ing their social net­work admin­is­tra­tor (90% infre­quently or never)

- 21% accept con­tact offer­ings from mem­bers they don’t recognize

- Over half let acquain­tances or room­mates access social net­works on their machines

- 64% click on links offered by com­mu­nity mem­bers or contacts

- 26% share files within social networks

- Nearly 20% have expe­ri­enced iden­tity theft

- 47% have been vic­tims of mal­ware infections

- 55% have seen phish­ing attacks

It wouldn’t be fair to say that the social net­works have ignored secu­rity issues. No, they haven’t. Twit­ter recently began try­ing to block links to mali­cious sites when users try to post them. Face­book has spent some time try­ing to improve the process of help­ing users gain back their hacked accounts. But the threats are still out there, and they seem to be increas­ing much more rapidly than they’re being elim­i­nated. As long as threats remain so preva­lent, so will reluc­tance, which goes for busi­nesses and indi­vid­u­als alike.

By say­ing that, after you watched above video and fin­ished read­ing this arti­cle, I sug­gest you go right way to GoSe­cure and get an account for yourself.

To gain bet­ter under­stand­ing in terms of how GoSecure’s pri­vate social net­work por­tal could help you in defend­ing your­self, pro­tect your pri­vacy and stay secure online. And at the same time to net­work­ing, media, photo shar­ing, social­iz­ing, blog­ging, keep in touch, knowl­edge shar­ing with oth­ers, like your fam­ily mem­bers, friends, col­leagues or busi­ness asso­ciates etc in a pri­vate way, you can find the answer and more detail infor­ma­tion in the arti­cle Your Own Secure and Pri­vate Social Net­work.

Yes, Social Media adop­tion con­tin­ues to grow rapidly, but there are many still out there that do not see the point, at least at the price of security.

The world is chang­ing, rec­og­nize what you are doing in the social media and be smart about it.

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