Panda Security Insight

I read this morning in Michael Krisgram’s blog, the US congressman that has twitted (by the way, we should use as an indicator of business success the acceptance of company names as verbs …) confidential information about his route while travelling through Iraq recently.  Krisgram wonders whether the massive adoption of  Twitter may become a security/confidentiality issue for governments going forward.  In the corporate world, we are asking ourselves if this avalanche of business information communicated by employees which are not official speakers may have consequences through the leakage of sensitive information to the market that may even put companies’ strategies at risk.

Twitter is communication.  Twitter is real time information.  Twitter opens a wide array of possibilities to share information that, logically, has inherent risks.  It is pretty clear, however, that the risk is not in the tool itself, but in the information that is shared through this channel.  Just as we know what to talk about in a casual dinner among friends, through an written communication by email or at a formal corporate presentation, we will have to do the same with Twitter: use business judgment.

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