What I’m Sharing (weekly)
How prepared is your IT department for the next legal hold Human error to blame for 9 in 10 UK data breaches last yea Smart Cities seem inevitable – but how smart is the cybersecurity protecting them? 3 facets of … Continued
Linked: Why you can’t bank on backups to fight ransomware anymore
I’ve often given this advice myself, if you get hit with ransomware, you can recover if you have a decent backup plan that gets you an unlocked copy of the data that the ransomware encrypted. But, that was before the … Continued
How Workplace Culture Creates Cybersecurity Failures
Here’s an interesting thought experiment. When you are in your office and receive an email from your boss, how long will it take before a follow-up email or phone call will occur if you don’t respond? If the answer to … Continued
Hacking Crowd Sourced Technology
I have been concerned about the idea of trusting “crowd-sourced” data to influence how decisions are made with technology for awhile now. Mostly, it’s been with social media and “reporting” tools, which seem to me to be very easy to … Continued
Linked: Imperiled information
So two Harvard students wondered just how much information was out there that had simply, been dumped online and made publicly available by hackers. Then, they also wondered how much of this data could be combined to identify and track … Continued
What I’m Sharing (weekly)
A Great Set of Videos for Teaching Networking and Computer Hardware Concepts The Rise of the Video Surveillance Industrial Complex. The Tech Factor: Special eDiscovery Considerations for the Tech Sector E-Discovery Lessons From the Presidential Impeachment Proceedings Privacy & Cybersecurity … Continued
Linked: The Growing Threat to Free Speech Online
I wrote about Section 230 last week. This comes from David French at Time. “It’s difficult to overstate how important this law is for the free speech of ordinary Americans. For 24 years we’ve taken for granted our ability to … Continued