Inc. to Publish Column by Joseph Steinberg, CEO of SecureMySocial

New York, NY - August 20, 2015 - SecureMySocial announced today that Inc., one of America’s leading business publications, has begun carrying the popular column written by SecureMySocial’s CEO, Joseph Steinberg.

In his column, Business, CyberSecurity, and Life, Steinberg offers thought leadership on topics related to both cybersecurity and running a business, as well as some general human interest pieces. Steinberg’s column, which was previously published by Forbes since the column's inception in 2012, attracted over three million readers last year.

Steinberg’s column appears on Inc. at: http://www.inc.com/author/joseph-steinberg

For more about Joseph Steinberg please visit: http://www.JosephSteinberg.com/

To learn more about SecureMySocial please visit http://www.SecureMySocial.com

About SecureMySocial

SecureMySocial protects businesses and people from the risks of inappropriate social media usage by warning users of social media in real time if they are making posts that could harm themselves or their employers. By offering SecureMySocial to employees, businesses may reduce their exposure to bad publicity, human resource issues, lawsuits, and regulatory fines. For more information please visit www.SecureMySocial.com, send email to info@SecureMySocial.com, or call +1 (646) 546-5621.

Inc.: How Your Business Can Stay Cyber-Secure Without Spending a Fortune

How Your Business Can Stay Cyber-Secure Without Spending a Fortune

"Inappropriate social media posts can cause many problems – such as leaking sensitive information, violating compliance rules, and assisting criminals to carry out attacks. Implement technology to ensure social media does not become a nightmare (of course, I recommend SecureMySocial); do not rely on simply telling people not to make particular types of posts on Facebook or Twitter – history tells us that many people simply do not realize when they are making such posts, and even those who do, may inadvertently leak data when posting from a smartphone that auto-corrects a misspelled word to a sensitive, internal term."

Society for Human Resource Management Article Discusses SecureMySocial

Society for Human Resource Management quotes SecureMySocial CEO, Joseph Steinberg...

“Tools like www.SecureMySocial.com can warn you if you (or any of your employees) post something that you should not. This can have other HR benefits as well."

Please read the article here.

Technology Investment-Banking Star, Maria Lewis Kussmaul, Joins SecureMySocial Advisory Board

SecureMySocial announced today that Maria Lewis Kussmaul, co-founder and partner at AGC Partners, has joined its Advisory Board. Ms. Kussmaul will provide insight and counsel to SecureMySocial as the firm delivers the world’s first system to protect businesses from the risks of their employees using social media, by warning people in real time if they are making social media posts that could harm themselves or their employers.

Maria Lewis Kussmaul is Co-Founder of AGC Partners, the top-ranked, tech-focused boutique investment bank with 246 transactions completed since 2003. Prior to co-founding AGC Partners, Maria was a co-founder, general and venture partner of Castile Ventures, a seed and early stage venture capital firm. Earlier, Ms. Kussmaul’s career spanned three Wall Street firms – Smith Barney, Shearson Lehman, and Cowen & Co., culminating with her serving as global head of Cowen’s data networks & Internet investment banking activities. Previously, she was named to the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team for thirteen consecutive years. Ms. Kussmaul holds a BA in Economics from Rutgers University, an MBA from Wharton School of Business, and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Commenting on her joining SecureMySocial’s Advisory Board, Ms. Kussmaul noted: “As more and more organizations embrace social media as a branding, communication and marketing resource, the risks of social media exposure are becoming ever more apparent.  SecureMySocial alerts individuals and organizations if a post that they are making may be damaging to their brand or reputation, or compromise confidential information, enabling timely removal and risk mitigation.  Innovative, pioneering and affording near zero touch deployment, SecureMySocial is an essential component of any cybersecurity arsenal.”

Joseph Steinberg, Founder and CEO of SecureMySocial, expressed the firm’s sentiments regarding Ms. Kussmaul’s joining its Advisory Board. “Maria Lewis Kussmaul is widely recognized as a leading expert on the technology industry in general, and on the cybersecurity sector specifically. She brings to SecureMySocial a wealth of knowledge and a stellar record of accomplishment, having both advised numerous firms in strategic capacities and facilitated and executed many major transactions. We are thankful and honored that she has agreed to join SecureMySocial’s Advisory Board.”

About SecureMySocial

SecureMySocial protects businesses and people from the risks of inappropriate social media usage by warning users of social media in real time if they are making posts that could harm themselves or their employers. By offering SecureMySocial to employees, businesses may reduce their exposure to bad publicity, human resource issues, lawsuits, and regulatory fines. For more information please visitwww.SecureMySocial.com, send email to info@SecureMySocial.com, or call +1 (646) 546-5621.

Entrepreneur: 4 Essentials to Secure Your Business Even From State-Sponsored Online Threats

This article discusses various threats to businesses and includes the following quote from Joseph Steinberg, CEO of SecureMySocial:

“People forget that employees can leak data from home or mobile devices. This has become a dramatically larger problem since the dawn of social media and the entrance into the workforce of a generation of people who grew up oversharing on social media. Technology implemented at the perimeter of an organization does not do anything to prevent these types of leaks, so standard data leak prevention (DLP) solutions are often insufficient.” 

Read the full article here.

CIO Magazine: How your employees put your organization at risk

CIO discusses various risks posed by employees -- including how their use of social media can harm a business.

To read the article please click here.

Rhonda MacLean, Former CISO of Boeing, Bank of America, and Barclays, Joins SecureMySocial Advisory Board

SecureMySocial announced today that Rhonda MacLean, former Chief Information Security Officer of Boeing, Bank of America, and Barclays Global Retail and Commercial Bank, has joined its Advisory Board.

Rhonda MacLean

May 5, 2015 - NEW YORK -- SecureMySocial announced today that Rhonda MacLean, former Chief Information Security Officer of Boeing, Bank of America, and Barclays Global Retail and Commercial Bank, has joined its Advisory Board. Ms. Maclean will provide insight and counsel to SecureMySocial as the firm delivers the world’s first system to protect businesses from the risks of employees using social media, by warning people in real time if they are making social media posts that could harm themselves or their employers.

Ms. MacLean is presently the CEO of MacLean Risk Partners, a risk-management consulting company, and serves on the Board of Directors of several cybersecurity and fraud-prevention companies including RedSeal and ThreatMetrix. She previously served as Chief Information Security Officer for Boeing, Bank of America, and Barclays, PLC, Global Retail and Commercial Bank in London, and served on the Board of Directors of Vontu and PGP Corporation, leading technology companies dedicated to providing data protection and data loss solutions, both of which were acquired by Symantec. She has also served as Adjunct Distinguished Senior Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Information Networking Institute.

Earlier in her career, Ms. MacLean was appointed by the United States Secretary of the Treasury to serve as the sector coordinator and chairperson of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security. She has won many awards including having been named by Network World, on multiple occasions, as one of the most powerful 50 people in the networking field, and winning the CSO Compass Award for Industry Leadership, CIO Digest EMEA Visionary Award, and the Executive Women’s Forum’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Commenting on her joining SecureMySocial’s Advisory Board, Ms. MacLean noted: “Effectively harnessing the power and the opportunities to use social media to drive business is rapidly becoming an essential tool for many enterprises. But, just as social media can enhance a brand, it can just as quickly damage it. SecureMySocial is an innovative, easy to implement and use tool that protects your company and personal brand. SecureMySocial should be a part of any organization’s basic security and data loss prevention hygiene.”

Joseph Steinberg, Founder and CEO of SecureMySocial, expressed the firm’s sentiments regarding Ms. Maclean joining its Advisory Board. “Rhonda MacLean is widely recognized for her superb record of accomplishment as CISO of multiple major corporations,” said Steinberg. “She brings to SecureMySocial a wealth of knowledge and experience, and we are grateful that she has agreed to serve on the firm’s Advisory Board.”

About SecureMySocial

SecureMySocial protects businesses and people from the risks of inappropriate social media usage by warning users of social media in real time if they are making posts that could harm themselves or their employers. By offering SecureMySocial to employees, businesses may reduce their exposure to bad publicity, data leaks, human resource issues, lawsuits, and regulatory fines. For more information please visit www.SecureMySocial.com or call +1 (646) 546-5621.

Forbes: Are You Spending Your Information-Security Budget On The Wrong Technology?

“Which firewall should I use?” is a question that I am frequently asked when I meet businesspeople at conferences and networking events.

While it may sound innocuous, this inquiry is, in fact, indicative of a disturbing trend found among both businesspeople and consumers vis-à-vis the security of their valuable and private information: investing too much attention and money (from limited budgets) in areas in which they already benefit from relatively solid security, and, therefore, have disproportionately low returns on improvements, while all but ignoring various gaping holes.

Read the full article here for four areas that often are given insufficient consideration, but which you should be thinking about – and investing in – before it is too late.