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Facebook’s Friday Night Fright and Monday Meltdown and Why Smart companies (a.k.a. Social SafeGuard customers) Were already managing social media risk

March 29, 2018 | Otavio Freire
As of the writing of this article Facebook Inc. shares are on pace to post their largest percentage decline in nearly five years, wiping out $50B in market cap, a value equal to 2x Twitter’s entire market cap that also declined 9%. Facebook is under ...
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Government Agencies and Companies Need Better Controls for Social Media Risk. Part I.

March 12, 2018 | Kevin Walter
Emergency Alert BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. That horrifying message was tweeted to the cell phones of hundreds of thousands of terrified Hawaiians and tourists on January 13, 2018. Panic en...
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Government Agencies and Companies Need Better Controls for Social Media Risk. Part II.

March 12, 2018 | Kevin Walter
Missed Part 1, see it here (link) Steps 2 & 3 - Protecting against hacking, account takeover and other malicious external threats Even as public agencies and large organizations implement best practices to bring their messaging systems and channels u...
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