Social SafeGuard now discovers and protects a company’s social landscape; identifies and remediates unauthorized social media accounts that are fraudulent or suspicious; protects known assets from malware, phishing, and other fraudulent activity
Tysons Corner, Va., June 21, 2016 – Social SafeGuard, provider of social media compliance and archiving, announced today they have launched their new social media security offering.
Social SafeGuard discovers and protects a company’s social landscape by identifying and remediating unauthorized accounts that are fraudulent or suspicious. In addition, Social SafeGuard protects a company’s known social assets from malware, phishing, and other fraudulent activity, providing a comprehensive security and compliance solution.
“Social media has become a serious security threat for companies,” says Matt Phillips, Chief Revenue Officer at Social SafeGuard. “As the business power of social media matures, more and more companies are being exposed to security threats across social networks. Our customers have become increasingly concerned with these threats, so we have created an offering to further protect them. The social media landscape is constantly changing so we are always looking for new threats and in turn, new ways to further protect our customers.”
“This release represents a fundamental milestone for the Social SafeGuard platform,” says Matt Prentis, Vice President of Product Management at Social SafeGuard. “We have collaborated with customers that have experienced the effects of both malicious content infiltrating their social assets as well as fraudulent pages and accounts targeting their brands or executives. With our Social SafeGuard Security offering, we are able to not only address these issues, but save our customers an exponential amount of time and resources typically spent both identifying and removing these malicious posts or accounts.”
In 2015, there were approximately 24 million fake Facebook accounts and 29 million malicious tweets sent every day. Social SafeGuard Security can identify and take action on all impersonation accounts, unauthorized employee accounts, unofficial company accounts, and brand smashing accounts across social networks. Fake accounts are responsible for coaxing personal information from customers, hosting web links containing malware, and executing phishing scams. Social SafeGuard Security uses proprietary algorithms and contextual analysis to surface and automate the takedown process of social media assets that present potential threats to companies, brands, and employees.
Social SafeGuard reduces operational costs faced by digital and security teams by eliminating the task of scouring social media for risks in addition to consolidating archiving, compliance and security into one platform. This new offering takes a proactive approach to social media security in order to help companies avoid negative repercussions such as reputational damage, customer exposure to threats, and data breaches due to malware and other malicious content.
Social SafeGuard Security is the third offering of the Social SafeGuard platform, complementing Social SafeGuard Archiving and Social SafeGuard Compliance.
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About Social SafeGuard
Social SafeGuard enables social collaboration to create competitive advantage while overcoming regulatory compliance challenges, legal threats, and security risk exposure. Social SafeGuard is an award-winning and industry leading solution for social media risk management in use by leading companies in the pharmaceutical, retail, consumer and financial services industries. For more information, please visit www.SocialSafeGuard.com.