Is privacy dead? Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems famously said "You have zero privacy. Get over it." This raises some interesting questions: Are we at a stage where people have just gotten over it? Do your customers care about privacy? What about younger people and the 'millennials'? Nothing to hide When asked, most of us would say [...]
Like any radio signal, wifi can be received by anyone within range. So, what's to stop a third party from parking outside your house and watching you surf the net, do your banking etc? The answer is encryption. Home and work networks are usually encrypted so that any eavesdroppers would only receive an unintelligible jumble of characters. Unlike [...]
Customers will largely decide if you are trustworthy based on your behavior. Below are some guidelines: No surprises Do not unilaterally re-purpose customer information, thereby surprising the customer when the information pops up in a different context. Do not allow their information to leak to third parties. Do not lose their information and then ask them to supply the [...]
The majority of CEO's place a high value on maintaining their organizations' reputation and brand. Below are some ways that these critical business assets may be affected by a data breach: Direct financial loss While news of a high profile personal information breach tends to have an immediate negative effect on share price (for instance, the recent breach of [...]
Whether you call them 'memory sticks', 'flash drives', 'flash disks' or 'thumb drives', these USB devices are inexpensive, tiny and make it super easy to transfer data between computers. Unfortunately the convenience comes with risk. Information loss / theft Probability: very high Their size make them easy to carry but it also makes them easy to lose. While [...]