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Tip of the Week: Use Technology to Beat Your Employees
Interesting: back on May 27, my Tip of the Week was entitled “Assume Your Employees Ignore You.” I described how employees really pay little attention to company policy, or even actively break it.
Then, two weeks (to the day) later, Ponemon Institute released another superb study, sponsored by IronKey, this time entitled “Trends in Insider Compliance [...]
Tip of the Week: Assume Your Employees Ignore You
Assumptions are remarkably powerful. Many of my recent tips have centered around assumptions because the assumptions we make often drive the entire way we live or operate a business. For example, if we’re having coffee and I assume that you’re listening when I speak, I might talk fairly quickly or cover a lot of material. [...]
Tip of the Week: Know What’s Going On
This week’s tip is especially for business and enterprise laptop users. All too often, organizations make assumptions. Assumptions are very dangerous.
One assumption made is that your users aren’t putting much sensitive data on their laptops. For example, “we use an SaaS application, so all the data is on the server, so I’m sure our laptops [...]
Resolution #1: Protect Employees from Identity Theft
It’s a new year, and everyone is making resolutions. But perhaps the most important resolution you can make this year is to protect everyone, even your employees or third party service providers, from identity theft.
PricewaterhouseCoopers released its sixth annual Global State of Information Security Survey 2008, announcing that businesses nationwide have implemented double-digit advances in [...]
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