Using social networking safely: tips from security pros
By Katherine Walsh • Published: Tuesday, 6 May 2008

Despite the well-publicized security and privacy risks of social networking, it's possible to reap the benefits of social networking and stay safe at the same time.

Howard Schmidt was reluctant to hop on the social networking bandwagon--a byproduct, he says, of the paranoia he internalizes a security professional. Eventually, though, Schmidt--the one-time cybersecurity adviser to President Bush and itinerant CISO turned consultant--decided the positives outweighed the negatives. He joined not just one social network but three: Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace.

"My response to those in the security business lamenting the existence of Facebook and MySpace is to ask them if they've ever been on it," says Schmidt.

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