On Wednesday 11 Feb 2009, Saswata Banerjee wrote:
[snip] That is absolutely true. We encourage officers and managers to use social networking sites, for work and information. It is a source of a lot of information, queries, leads and business referrals. For example (and this topic is OT), for the launch of our new Joint Venture, Business Over Breakfast, people in my office sent about 1400 messages to people in the various social network sites to introduce the concept without having to spend huge money on advertisements. And we had to stay connected to the sites to be able to give prompt replies to any queries that would come from any of those 1400 people we started a converstaion with
Are you sure all your officers and managers are clued about security and social engineering? Not speaking against the use of social networking per se, but it does have huge attendant risks, for example:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-02/0149.html
Regards,
-- Raju