Facebook Hacks It's Own Employees

In a traditional business setting, when executive want to teach their employees a valuable lesson, they will normally throw together a boring Powerpoint and make all their employees attend the presentation. Statistically, such information is not delivered corrected through Powerpoint's as they are not engaging and do not generate any conversation.

The largest social media company in the world, Facebook, took this into consideration when trying to teach a valuable lessons about hacking to their employees. Every October, Facebook celebrates "Hacktober", a month long information session about hacking in today's networked world. During the week, Facebook has information sessions which feature a series of simulated security threats. The interesting part about these simulations is that they are conducted on their employees own computers.

For instance, Facebook would send around an email containing a security threat and would keep track of how many employees opened the email. Afterwards, they would debrief by interviewing the employee and asking them why they chose to open to email.

Such information is incredibly valuable for Facebook to be able to protect against hackers that try to jeopardize their site.

--MD

Sources:

http://mashable.com/2012/11/29/facebook-hacktober/#103801Hacktober-Poster