Bangalore: In an era, where a large demographic is hooked on to social networking sites, enterprises have found an ingenious way to market their products and ideas through these networking sites. Believe it or not social media is all over and has also invaded your enterprise. But with that comes a surge of basic risks that are well known to most enterprise security managers, there are many dark corners of social media that can have dire consequences.

Here are five tips by Andre Eaddy, director of cybersecurity portfolio services at Unisys through which you can secure your corporate network while leveraging on social networking platforms.

1. Develop and follow policies

Considering the social media pros and cons CIOs should draft social media policies to guide their staff, a set of acceptable polices should be developed for both personal and business social networking pages, this should be communicated to employees on regular basis reports Debra Boston Miller of thebrainyard. "This is important because it gives the company an opportunity to lay the foundation and groundwork for how they want their staff to interact with these sites, and also provides guidelines for the staff and gives them an opportunity to present what's acceptable to communicate on the site," says Eaddy.