Social networking and the risk to companies and institutions

Information Security Technical Report

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 51-56

  Langheinrich, Marc ^a   Karjoth, Günter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTACK VECTOR; BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES; CUSTOMER ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; LEGAL OBLIGATIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTER CRIME; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PERSONAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 79551536741     PISSN: 13634127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.istr.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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