Hey, remember when I wrote about network security monitoring and whether you trust your IT folks? Or the podcast discussion we had on the Nuix Unscripted podcast? One of our big takeaways from the discussion was to make sure there are multiple people involved in deciding what to monitor, or who to target, to avoid…
If you got a new iPhone, iPad or MacBook device for the holidays this year, great for you. I hope you really enjoy your new device. If you’re considering what to do with your old device, there are a lot of choices. You could try and sell it, you could give it a friend or…
Corey Tomlinson from Nuix reached out after reading my blog post about their software demo to engage me in a conversation with him and Hoke Smith, also from Nuix, about the issues raised. Specifically, we wanted to talk about the fine lines organizations walk between monitoring their network and devices for misuse or data leak,…
This is a fairly simple way to protect yourself. “If you save a login for a website like Chase.com or Amazon.com, your password manager will remember it and offer to automatically fill it in for you when you’re on Chase.com or Amazon.com. If you end up on a different website, your password manager won’t offer…
But wait, there’s more. Yesterday, the Senate was threatening tech companies that they will be requiring them to break encryption. But, not everyone in the Federal government agrees: “However, it appears that other parts of the government are a bit more up to date on these things. Representative Ro Khanna has forwarded a letter to…
I agree with Sharon on this: “Backdoors don’t work. Government raises sensitive issues around human trafficking and child pornography to inflame the public. What it really wants is to snoop at will on everyone and to deprive Americans of our right to privacy. My opinion, but there it is.” The thing is, while the media…