What about practical security for the non-techy? These five tips will help anyone, regardless of technical know-how, to protect themselves in a hostile online environment.
Again, nothing many of you don’t already know, but if you find yourself needing to pass along some advice for the non-technical folks in your life, you could do worse. 😉
https://www.nuix.com/blog/5-ways-non-techies-enhance-their-security
I hope not, but my not quite 3 year old HP laptop, with Windows XP on it, is having difficulties. It only boots correctly every other attempt, or sometimes the third attempt. Sometimes in the off attempts, it hangs on the HP boot screen, other times it goes all the way to the login screen,…
I saw this post over at Kevin O’Keefe’s this morning and realized that there was one sentence that really jumped out at me about social networking, because it’s something I don’t think a lot of people realize. Social media is not something to do ‘when you have some time’ – make time for it or…
That’s what Michelle Golden suggested last week, and I tend to agree. I see this most plainly trying to document the time I spend in the office. I’m an hourly employee, technically I’m supposed to do work in the office, and then stop. Except, in the era of constant connectivity, how am I really supposed…
This is something that many of us older folks don’t get, but we should be thinking about much more. I think many of us who work in the technology, legal, or eDiscovery sectors can lose sight of how demanding careers in these industries are. We are quick to scoff at the idea that we should maybe figure out how to make them a little less demanding, or at least more friendly for diverse candidates who can’t simply work all night, or be on call 24 hours a day for our clients because that’s just the way it’s done in our industry. We tend to think that because all of the jobs in the industry are like that, we don’t have to worry about competitors offering something else to our employees.
We are not considering how many people we drive out of the industry completely, especially young people. There is a staffing shortage in these industries, and the companies struggling to find enough talent are not losing out to some other mysterious company in the industry who can pick and choose, we’re all in the same boat because the boat is leaking people every single day. People are making the choice to do something else because what we offer isn’t cutting it.
While I would love to end this with a condemnation of venture capitalists and hedge fund managers, I think it’s important to point out that many of us are complicit. Fund managers seeking the best short-term profits for their investments run funds whose shareholders include most of us. When we log in and look at our IRA or 401(k) accounts, we look for how much the value has increased, not what makes the most sense for society. Our account balance looks a little nicer when a company lays off 10,000 employees and the stock price increases.
It’s all entwined. To paraphrase Michael Corleone – “We’re all part of the same hypocrisy.”
“Given how fast things changed, he said, he finds himself visualizing the next 5-10 years; planning for the next 2-4 years; hiring for today’s problems; and managing everything with yesterday’s budget.” I think that pretty much sums up the eDiscovery landscape right now. All the more reason to make sure that folks who work in…
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Thank you!! More posts for non-techies!!