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Social Media AUP: Take a stand on the social web.
You've undoubtedly crafted policies to protect your employees and your data on the web and in email. Now it's critical to make sure those policies account for the unique risks of social media. Websense provides you with two toolkits to help you with that process.

The social Web: big rewards, huge risks
Rich applications, real-time conversations, and user-generated posts can build your brand with new clients, great hires, and name fame. But the social Web also puts you at risk of data theft and security breaches that can wipe out your profit and your reputation.

Download both kits

Social Media AUP: Toolkit #1

Social Media AUP: Toolkit #2

Tools to help you create an AUP for social media

  • Social Media Acceptable Use Security Sample Policy
  • Internet Acceptable Use Policy Worksheet Sample
  • New Social Media Acceptable Policy Announcement Email Sample

Materials to help communicate your AUP and train users

  • Social Media Acceptable Use Policy Training for Employees
  • Social Media Acceptable Use Policy Education for Employees
  • Social Media Acceptable Use Staff Awareness: Posters

Social media and you

The good The bad The ugly
  • 75% of brand "Likes" on Facebook come from ads¹
  • Instant ads to 175 million on Twitter in minutes
  • 60 million possible job applicants on LinkedIn
  • In 2009, social gamers bought $2.2 billion in virtual goods; predicted to increase to $6 billion by 20131
  • 22% of real-time search results on entertainment lead to a malicious link
  • Over 55% of social sites are only 2 clicks away from danger
  • Fans can post anything on your Facebook page, including bad language, bad links, and bad facts about your business
  • Employees who search websites for work can get sidetracked by games, sports, and other time wasters
In 2010:
  • 52% of data-stealing attacks occur over the Web
  • Malicious websites shot up by 111% over 2009
  • Nearly 80% of websites with malicious code were legitimate sites, such as news sites, that had been secretly compromised
  • Security attacks are increasingly clever and sinister, for example: preying on those who want to help others through online donations for disaster relief

(Statistics from the Websense 2010 Threat Report, except where noted otherwise) ¹WebProNews, Jan. 31, 2011