The Importance Of Social Media

Social media is an internet based platform where people interact freely, discussing and sharing information about their day to day lives. This can be fun and interesting but it poses a greater security risk than the picture painted on the different site’s, sharing information freely sound like a great idea but put the information on the wrong hands and it could be a disaster. Dishonest actors, criminals and con artists use this as an opportunity for nefarious purpose, attackers have increasingly developed ways to get hands to your private data without your knowledge through the same social media sites, this has grown out of containerbility due to the increased technological knowhow by the attackers and lesser security measures on the internet,

Enterprises need to step up the awareness of cyber security by adapting to a more comprehensive strategy to proactively prevent any attacks from happening now and in the future. Governments should introduce bills that would require the enterprises to protect the privacy of the consumer by providing more secure technology. As technology evolution continues to revolutionize the industry, the innovators need to come up with more ways of improving the security features of the gadgets produced. It is the responsibility of every user to devising Ways on improving the privacy of data by creating more complex passwords and avoid common mistakes of the so obvious or likely to guess passwords, this can be achieved through the service providers as a way of enlightening the customers towards privacy and data protection on any device that connects to the internet. The awareness also should include the pros and cons of using the social media so that we may filter what not to post and what access we give our online friends in our social media