Social network security is key and I have many reasons for citing this:

1. Bebo won the Computing Which? award for its security as a social network.

2. The recent issue with Robert Scoble ‘hacking’ Facebook.

3. Cited in my post yesterday on IBM’s new Atlas tool, and how corporate networks which decide to deply social networks of one-kind-or-another have a security advantage of public ones.

4.Plus the mining of social networking sites for information.

5. Not fogetting this KPMG survey of security concerns hampering web 2.0 business uptake.

Or to use a little less jargon, and get to the point from a user view point: “Who will see what I write?“..

IBM’s Atlas tool aims to help businesses visualize connections between colleagues:

“Rob Koplowitz, an analyst with Forrester Research, says that employing social-computing features within a business is as important as using these tools for informal relationships. One key feature of social software designed particularly for businesses is its ability to protect sensitive data, he says: “I’m able to generate relationships and content that might not be appropriate outside of my enterprise. In the consumer space, you assume that the information is public, and that’s what you have access to.” But with software designed for large corporations, he says companies can assume that access is more secure, and they have the option to make more information available.”