Social Media Hardening

The U.S. government does take steps to help their people harden their social media. They released a document in March of 2021 that gives a good walk-through of hardening your social media to the visibility of those you want. It has not been updated since and might not be again. This means that some of the steps will not look the same, but the general concept is there. It’s a great start to protecting your social media accounts.

DOD Identity Awareness Guide 2021(PDF)

Safeguard Digital Identity Protection Toolkit 2023 (PDF)

I challenge you to open it and do the steps for 1 Social Networking Service (Facebook, Twitter…)& one Ecosystem setting (Google, Messaging App…)

Here is a sample of LinkedIN and Facebook security from the document.