Linked: Offboarding tips will prevent employee data theft when people leave the company
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Linked: Offboarding tips will prevent employee data theft when people leave the company

Now, I’ve left a few jobs over the years, including some that were remote, which I think is a new challenge for a lot of places right now. Most of the time, the departing employee is not exactly top of mind for the organization. You’ve got work to do, and they are no longer part of the plan. I get that, but somebody probably wants to at least pay attention to what the employee is doing on the way out. 

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Linked – Former Google In-House Discovery Leader Says It’s Important to Invest in People Before Tech
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Linked – Former Google In-House Discovery Leader Says It’s Important to Invest in People Before Tech

You know, we could ask the same question at many corporate law departments, and also at law firms. “When I came to Google my hypothesis was, what would happen if you really invested in the people?” she said. “And then I went out and found those people.” Often, eDiscovery is an offshoot of something else….

Linked – Why companies need to implement a ‘zero trust’ approach to their cybersecurity model
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Linked – Why companies need to implement a ‘zero trust’ approach to their cybersecurity model

This is not as easy as he makes it sound: And then lastly is learning from all these three elements – the user, the device, the least privilege, and adapting your policies. So it’s a constant learning and adapting, changing the policies. For instance, if Jane never executes certain commands on a Unix machine, let’s…

Litigation Support In a Law Firm – Vendors Are Coming for Your Job
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Litigation Support In a Law Firm – Vendors Are Coming for Your Job

Hidden away in a recently seen blog post about moving to the cloud on Cicayda’s website this week was this little nugget: There is absolutely no reason to keep hiring internal staff for litigation support when we have the team to help perform all the heavy lifting. Now, since I work in a law firm…

Linked – Phishing 101 at the School of Hard Knocks
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Linked – Phishing 101 at the School of Hard Knocks

Universities are an obvious target for hackers, for some really obvious reasons. Usually you have a relatively inexperienced IT workforce, a risk-unaware user base, and one thing that may come as a surprise to many outside of these environments, an extremely insecure environment. A few years back I had some interaction with a college IT…