| Social Media usage, and Information Security Factors (SMISF) | ||||
| Author | Country | Purpose | Type of source (Methodology) | Summary of key points (factors) |
| (Tayouri, 2015) | Israel | “Identify cyber security risks, and mitigations, focusing on the human factor and social media usage.” | Conference proceeding (Literature Review) | Education and training Error handling Information security - Privacy/confidentiality - Availability |
| (Wu He, 2012) | USA | “Review social media security risks and mitigation techniques” | Journal article (Literature review) | Security policy User monitoring Education and training Software update Error handling |
| (Jain, Sahoo, & Kaubiyal, 2021) | India | “Review different security and privacy threats, and existing solutions that can provide security to social network users” | Journal article (Literature review) | Security and privacy setting Authentication mechanism Report users |
| (Wilcox, & Bhattacharya, 2015) | Australia | “Countering Social Engineering through Social Media: An Enterprise Security Perspective” | Book chapter Literature Review | Effective security policy Increase awareness Education and training Legal factors Technical factors - Anti-virus - Firewalls - Anti-spam filter - Access control - VPN - Intrusion detection - Encryption - Two factors authentication |
| (Ma, Zhang, Li, & Wu, 2019) | China | “Exploring information security education on social media use: Perspective of uses and gratifications theory” | Journal article Survey and (Literature review and modeling) | Education and training User satisfaction Information security awareness |
| (Di Gangi, Johnston, Worrell & Thompson, 2016) | USA | “A multi-panel Delphi study of organizational social media risk” | Journal article (Delphi approach) | Social factors - Effective policy - Awareness - Education and training Technical factors Legal factors |