Enterprise security leaders attended this year’s Security 500 West conference in Santa Clara, California, on May 3, and they participated in high-level panels and conversations.

Alleging privacy violations and potentially invasive tracking of activists’ actions, statements and protest plans, the American Civil Liberties Union has taken aim at social media monitoring software that has been used to monitor and analyze social media data from platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Social media is transforming corporate security in fundamental ways. Here are five trends that chief security officers, intelligence analysts and others need to consider when building a social media strategy. 

Analysts from Research and Markets forecast the global physical security information management market to grow at a CAGR of 14.82 percent during the period 2016-2020.

The newest features from Geofeedia enable its users to better detect trends and future events, analyze data sets and take action.

Establishing your enterprise as a trusted source of information during an emergency now demands the savvy use of social media.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YikYak, Weibo…. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of different social media platforms on the market today, and maintaining a grasp of your enterprise’s reputation and any potential risks in your area can be a challenge. 

Spurred on by the arrest of a Dutch teenager identified as “Sarah” in Rotterdam on Monday, who tweeted “hello my name’s Ibrahim and I’m from Afghanistan. I’m part of Al Qaida and on June 1^st I’m gonna do something really big bye," dozens of teens are now tweeting bomb-threat jokes to American Airlines.