Financial Services

SIX automates key cybersecurity tasks to actively protect itself against social media threats

Creating a social media compliance hub

After an audit, SIX found that its existing social media management platform wasn’t efficient or scalable enough for an organization that prides itself on a reputation for reliability, security, and quality. 

SIX chose to work with Hootsuite Enterprise, and made Hootsuite the compliance hub for social media. They quickly set about addressing issues they had found during their audit, including:

• Gain the ability to identify and delete unauthorized profiles, such as someone pretending to work for the company or an employee posting about the company

• Make it easier to regulate access to social media accounts

• Establish clear social media workflow and content approval processes

• Help their social team more efficiently monitor relevant conversations on social media 

After an audit of official and unofficial accounts, SIX closed 80 unofficial accounts—including dozens of fake Facebook accounts.

SIX rolled out Hootsuite across four departments, setting up workflows for approvals and crisis management, and providing support to help teams identify potentially damaging fraud.Social media team members can now assign tasks within the four departments if they see important social media conversations or content that need to be addressed. If necessary, the team can use Hootsuite to engage in these conversations. Everyone has full visibility of what’s going on in the dashboard at all times.For SIX, a major benefit of using Hootsuite was the ability to integrate two powerful security and brand monitoring tools—ZeroFOX and Brandwatch—to proactively monitor social media account security.

Brandwatch is a social listening tool used for reputation management. Like ZeroFOX, it is seamlessly integrated into Hootsuite and alerts SIX about the social buzz around the company and its industry.Brandwatch flags brand mentions, alerting the team any time SIX is mentioned so they can respond appropriately. It also helps them track positive and negative brand sentiment, giving them insight into topics their community is discussing and helping them plan their content strategy. And it enables the team to monitor a wide range of topics and keywords for potential red flags, positioning them to quickly respond to potential PR crises.In the event of any crisis, the social media team can now be involved immediately so they can use Hootsuite to monitor and report on the crisis in real time. They can also monitor hashtags and keywords around the crisis.

SIX recognized early on that providing the right training and ongoing support would be key to the success of their new social media management platform rollout.The onboarding phase for Hootsuite Enterprise included web-based end-user and admin training sessions, as well as interactive practical training led by the Hootsuite team at the SIX offices in Zurich. ZeroFOX also participated in the on-site kick-off for this partnership and delivered further training to help the SIX team protect the company brand and their clients on social. This included security best practices for keeping both corporate and employee social media accounts safe from cybercriminals and scammers.Brandwatch and ZeroFOX also ran focused web-based training sessions around how to best use their tools. The SIX team now offers ongoing internal training, including video training on social media guidelines.

When it came to brand protection, SIX had three main social media goals that influenced their thinking around platform partner selection and what they needed to do to stay secure on social:

• Build and maintain brand awareness and credibility

• Avoid social PR crises

• Quickly and effectively resolve customer service issues

Integrating ZeroFOX and Brandwatch within the Hootsuite Enterprise platform gave SIX the protection they needed. SIX social team members across various departments now see the same ZeroFOX and Brandwatch streams in Hootsuite, allowing them to keep on top of potential threats at all times.

Moving from reactive to active crisis management

Actively monitoring the company’s social media accounts for issues has made SIX’s customer support much more efficient. The team, which now has full control of all the company’s social accounts, receives 30 to 40 automated alerts a month and triggers one to two content takedowns a month—usually within 24 hours of requesting a takedown from the social network.Automating essential security tasks, such as finding fake profiles and monitoring brand mentions, has freed up the team to focus on engaging with customers and building relationships on social media.In fact, they have since seen a 20 percent increase in engagement on LinkedIn—one of their most important channels—since implementing Hootsuite.