What kind of access to Facebook do you give your employees? What about those in Marketing who want to use Facebook to monitor a competitor’s social marketing efforts? Or just gather competitive intelligence? Completely blocking Facebook for everyone in the organization may not make sense anymore because there are legitimate business uses for Facebook.

Palo Alto Networks has been a leader in enabling fine-grained policy control of web-based applications. Today, they extended their Facebook policy capabilities by creating a “Read-Only” option. I have no doubt that this was a customer driven enhancement to their already robust Facebook policy capabilities.

This is a great example of enabling business value while minimizing risk.