Shared Links (weekly) May 14, 2023

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Glenn Greenwald on Why Privacy Matters

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I love his response to anyone who suggests that we don’t need privacy if we aren’t doing anything wrong. OK, go ahead and email me the passwords to ALL of your email accounts so I can troll through, read what I want, publish what I find interesting, etc. Also note the way people like Eric…

Linked: Ransomware Attackers Leak Stolen Data
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Linked: Ransomware Attackers Leak Stolen Data

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This does make some sense. The arms race will continue. “With the rise of additional mitigation and recovery options that help organizations avoid paying the ransom, the next stage is to force payment, and it would be easy for the actor to post a number of example files to Pastebin,” perhaps initially in an encrypted…

Linked: Time to end workplace stigma of mental health treatment for employees
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Linked: Time to end workplace stigma of mental health treatment for employees

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Annalise describes a fairly typical situation, and what goes through our minds when we try to decide whether to say anything at work: “Let’s take something as simple as, theoretically: “My therapist is booked because demand is so high. I need treatment but they only have morning appointments available.” That may wrack your employee with…

Linked – Who should be responsible for cybersecurity?
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Linked – Who should be responsible for cybersecurity?

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I mean, naturally: “Clearly cybersecurity is everybody’s problem.” If you have access to anything that is not publicly available inside and outside of your workplace, then you have some responsibility for keeping it secure. Creating a workplace atmosphere that recognizes that reality is the job of the most senior management. Otherwise, you’ll have a whole…

Linked – The cost of tolerating underperformance — and overlooking your high performers

Linked – The cost of tolerating underperformance — and overlooking your high performers

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

The most engaged and productive people in your workplace also need room to grow and develop. Not offering that to them is inviting them to go elsewhere. Not offering career development to your high performers because you are wasting all of those resources to fix your lowest performers will not cut it. They deserve more than that, and someone will give it to them.

Linked: Bad news: The cybersecurity skills crisis is about to get even worse
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Linked: Bad news: The cybersecurity skills crisis is about to get even worse

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Now, the shortage of people leading to overworked stressed, and burned-out workers is the headline, but if you look at the reasons given in the article below, it’s not “just” that. It’s where that situation leads. When you’re short-staffed and constantly putting out fires, you don’t really take the time to think about showing appreciation, helping employees grow their skills and careers, or creating a diverse workplace.

Yet those are the exact things that employees are looking for elsewhere.

Appreciating and growing your employees is not something that is “nice to have” anymore. It’s a requirement.

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