Similar Posts
Linked: Employees’ email still drives most of the data loss at organizations
A good chunk of these breaches are not someone actually trying to steal data, but just someone trying to either make something more easily accessible outside of the office or taking information when they leave related to things like contact information, maybe some documents they’ve written themselves that they want to keep, etc.
It’s likely that these folks aren’t actively trying to commit some sort of corporate espionage, they just aren’t really thinking about what they do. It might just be that the once-per-year required video just isn’t enough to make it top of mind every day.
Linked – The Importance of Professional Development
Obviously, I didn’t spend 5 years of my career as a full time trainer and not believe strongly in the importance of training and professional development, and I think most law firms would publicly agree with that. The challenge though, is at the end of this paragraph: “Most law firms do not lack from training…
Linked: A Return to the Office Doesn’t Have to Mean a Return to Boring Presentations
The number of people who can read one thing and listen to another is very small. It might be zero. Our brains can’t process two different things that require our understanding simultaneously.
Of course, that also doesn’t mean that you just read your slides. That’s just boring. No one likes boring either.
Visuals. It’s all about the visuals.
Linked – In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges
As the article below points out, I bet this wasn’t a technical issue. It’s not a bug. It’s a poor configuration choice, yes, likely made worse by a poor change management process. Somewhere along the way, you’d think someone would have it written down that this existed, and someone would see it written down and act on it. That didn’t happen. You’d also like to think there would be a hard rule to enable MFA in any environment, including testing ones.
