Just like individuals, organizations are creating a strong presence online. Whether it is Facebook, Amazon, eBay, or another, businesses are leveraging a lot of the same services that individuals use. If you're like most people, you probably tie your accounts to your e-mail for notifications, management, and the like. When your company is in need of one of those online services, it's all too easy to leverage your personal account for business purposes.
Privacy and risk are two very important issues that arise when personal and business accounts are connected. For privacy, the demarcation between your individual privacy versus company rights is blurred when accounts are comingled. From a risk standpoint, the amount of useful information to leverage for a targeted attack (against you or your company) can increase dramatically. The fallout from such an attack against a personal account tied to one at the office can have serious ramifications for your organization.
A third issue tied to the first two is connecting with coworkers socially. Doing so creates added context about your for attackers, and it also gives your collegues and your company an invited look into your personal online life.
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