How to make your companies social media accounts hack proof

No one want to get hacked, but it may happen but the best thing you can do is prepare for the worst and hope for the best. It may never happen to your company but you would rather be safe than sorry. The following article is what can be done to help create hack proof social media accounts.

There aren’t too many steps to follow so we will try keep this article short but helpful.

1. Set the page up securely:
An intern or the newest member of the team is not the best person to set up these accounts for obvious reasons. Someone who has been there for a fair amount of years is a much better candidate of choice. In regards to the password, find the IT person or the best site to create a bomb-proof password. Don’t choose a spin on the companies name or your kids names either, people will get into the account extremely easily that way.

2. Centralise your access to the pages:
When people think of hacking, they always think of outside sources, they don’t think that it could be someone from can sometimes take over the social accounts. You can minimise the risk by centralising your accounts by using services like and Media Funnel. Within those sites you can limit employees access to the dashboards so they never have the logins to the individual accounts.

3. Audit your accounts:
If you are a larger company that has multiple departments, it’s most likely going to have multiple profiles across Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and so on. The best thing to do is to conduct an audit and remove those that are not benefiting the companies name or brand, but those that you are keeping active, make an administrative list to monitor them.

4. Have a plan in place for the worst
It’s always good to have a response post or message set up just incase it does occur. If they lock you out of the accounts, do you have the details of the necessary support contacts? It’s best to have a post and message set up for a few different situations.

No one wants to get hacked so it’s best to set up the safest profiles that you can. We follow these steps ourselves, so here’s to helping your company’s pages too.