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Headings: DOD's new policy 'likes' social media, but with caveats
DOD's new policy 'likes' social media, but with caveats
Clearing the fog of Facebook
The elephant in the room
Filling in the gaps
Social media missteps
The appropriation of Adm. Stavridis’ identity
Marine dismissed for Obama-bashing on Facebook
Geotagging slip backfires big time
Indian, British and Israeli service members leak confidential data online

Content: It’s a new set of applications…and whether I’m in Kabul or Mogadishu or any other place, I need to be able to communicate. [ Existing systems can be] too onerous, difficult, expensive and hard to execute. So what people do is work around using social media. Social media is a big bootlegging operation. It breaks down the structure.” Carey believes that the new policy, combined with existing training and education, are enough to combat much of the threat that social media potentially poses. The two main concerns are cybersecurity and information security, he said. Although social media receives the same cybersecurity treatment as any other form of DOD desktop activity — including perimeter defense, firewalls and other traditional measures — information security hinges on the training and education that are mandatory for all defense personnel, both military and civilian. At the heart of information security is operations security, which in turn might be the pinnacle of social media security concerns. “A lot of social media policies try to address the breadth [of concerns] not to scare people to death but to let them understand this is not the same thing as having a conversation in your living room or over a cup of coffee with a friend,” said Laurie Schive, outreach director at the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.