Social Media Traffic Monitoring – From Thought Police to Security Priority

Originally published by Netography. Written by Mal Fitzgerald, Sales Engineer, Netography. It seems as though every week we hear about another government agency that has banned a specific social media platform from their government-issued devices. There are a multitude of reasons for banning social media off of devices that touch your network, such as phishing and malware concerns and the overreach of privacy needs stated in the terms of service, just to name a couple. No matter how restricti...

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