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Special Announcement: Understanding the Business of eDiscovery Work-At-Home and Remote Access – It’s Time for a Security Review How a Services Partner Can Support Your e-Discovery Process Man Accused of Remotely Wiping Cellphone After Arrest I have questions, 1. how do you prove he was the one who wiped it? and 2. Why did the…
Is Your Organization “Well-being Washing”?
I’ve heard of companies “green-washing” talking a good game about their work on climate change while also continuing to be a large contributor to it, but in the area of wellbeing, this was a new one. Except, it isn’t a new idea. This study asked employees at UK companies if the public statements about mental health and employee support match what is happening within the company itself. Many said that the public supportiveness did not match the internal work culture. That’s not anything new. I think we have all worked somewhere or have heard plenty of stories about workplaces where the public face of the company or even the internal HR face talks quite a lot about how much they focus on employee wellness but apparently, no one told the middle managers about it.
Stolen Data is a Risk, Here’s an Example of Altered Data That is Worse
The entire system is based on the license plate database being connected to all of the automated plate readers. All it took for this to become a problem was for part of that not to stay safe. Since the license plate database isn’t, anyone can create a fake license plate, pop it on a similar-looking vehicle, and the collected data is tainted. All those people who had nothing to hide now have a system that assumes they were driving illegally, causing accidents, etc. They are facing actual fines, increased insurance costs, and possible arrests because of surveillance data that’s been hacked. Data that should show them as innocent but false information has been injected into it.
Linked – Two ways AI hype is worsening the cybersecurity skills crisis
The pressure to become AI experts and make the organization’s rollout of AI tools secure only adds more mental load to already overloaded cybersecurity professionals.Â
