Social media usage inside companies is not something to wonder about and remain in awe, as it was a few years back, but quite the opposite, as these days, many organizations rely on it to boost their business.
If we're talking about social media usage at a corporate level or social media usage at the employee, personal level, this type of behavior has grown tremendously inside companies, and cyber-threat actors are leveraging its expanded use.
A study by Osterman Research reveals that 73 percent of all surveyed companies have a Facebook account and use it for business reasons, 64 percent use LinkedIn, and 56 percent employ Twitter.
Additionally, the usage of closed-circuit social platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint, Cisco social platforms (Jabber, WebEx, WebEx Social), Microsoft Yammer, Salesforce Chatter, and IBM Connections has also grown in the past years.
All of these platforms, regardless of the methods and the reasons each business deploys them, are contributing to the proliferation and easier distribution of malware among their employees and infrastructure.
