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Users are the weakest link, security experts warn

ByMike McBride November 16, 2001July 22, 2015 Reading Time: 1 minute

Users are the weakest link, security experts warn | Computerworld News & Features Story

This is pretty good stuff. This article really shows the things you need your senior management folks to know and buy into. It took me a long time to get folks here to buy into security, and since it’s still in the roll-out process, the true tests are still to come. I’m sure in the coming weeks I’ll know a whole lot more about how much buy in there really is, and how much was just to get me off their back. Obviously, I hope they are serious about this.

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E-Discovery Impact on IT
ByMike McBride January 7, 2008July 22, 2015 Reading Time: 1 minute

I thought this quote from a ComputerWorld article really sums up what I’ve been thinking since I moved into Litigation Support and out of a strictly IT job. ?[FRCP] has made their lives incredibly complicated,? Nirken said. IT is now responsible for immediately locating electronic files that ?can exist just about anywhere ? in networks,…

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Linked: Why you can’t bank on backups to fight ransomware anymore
ByMike McBride February 8, 2020February 7, 2020 Reading Time: 1 minute

I’ve often given this advice myself, if you get hit with ransomware, you can recover if you have a decent backup plan that gets you an unlocked copy of the data that the ransomware encrypted. But, that was before the hackers changed their game plan, and now started taking data as well as encrypting your…

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ByMike McBride December 1, 2013 Reading Time: 1 minute

The 50 Free Apps We’re Most Thankful For tags: Tech MM E-discovery: What is the optimal model for corporations? tags: LitSupport MM If You Don’t Care About The NSA Because You ‘Haven’t Done Anything Wrong,’ You’re Wrong tags: Security MM Pizza & Metadata: Order It The Way You Want It tags: LitSupport MM 18 Must-Have Travel Apps…

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There Seems to be A Disconnect Between Management and Employees, Again.
ByMike McBride October 8, 2020October 14, 2022 Reading Time: 4 minutes

Specifically, as this article points out, companies seem to think they’re doing a bang-up job supporting their employees during all of this forced work-from-home stuff, and pandemic fears, but employees don’t seem to agree: Nearly three-quarters of managers in the survey say they’re helping their staff learn skills to work in a new way. But…

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Linked: Section 230 and the complications of free speech on the internet
ByMike McBride December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 Reading Time: 3 minutes

This is ultimately the nightmare scenario for the internet if Section 230 is just wiped out. “Example: if platforms are made responsible for everything millions of users post on their sites, they will have to read it all first. This would mark the end of the internet as a forum for real time communication. It…

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Linked: Changed by pandemic, many workers won’t return to old jobs
ByMike McBride May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Do the calculation yourself. What do you ask employees to tolerate versus what they get from the job, and consider what you’ve asked them to put up with during the last year versus what they get from the job. The calculations have changed. As it turns out, those employees were watching you, and watching how much you valued their health and safety.

Consider the possibility that you didn’t show them what they wanted to see, and that’s why they’re not coming back, and why no one else wants to work there too.

Maybe they’ll come back to work when they have no other options, for a short time, but they’ll never be committed to you again. You’ve lost that, and in many cases, you deserved it.

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