Careers Information Security Podcast

From blogs to wikis, Facebook to Twitter, social media have taken over the workplace. But how do security leaders manage social media before all these new tools and technologies become unmanageable? Jerry Mechling is a prominent author and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, and in an exclusive interview he discusses: Social media's impact on public and private entities; The inherent security and risk management challenges; How organizations should begin to unlock social media's potential. Mechling, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, is Founder of the Leadership for a Networked World Program and the Harvard Policy Group on Network-Enabled Services and Government. He is also a Research Vice President of Gartner. His studies focus on the impacts of information and digital technologies on individual, organizational, and societal issues. He consults on these and other topics with public and private organizations locally and internationally. He is primary author of E