Category: Policies
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Protection: What a Pain!
I came across a quote I love sometime over the last year: Security should cause healthy friction. It should not impede your users – it should hardly even cause them delays. It is a quote that I love, and which I have shared with my students every time I teach. Sometimes I get caught in…
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The Inefficiencies of Legacy Thinking
Until recently, I was working at a company that was in the process of migrating their datacenters into the cloud. Their policies, written many years ago, stated that information had to go through their corporate firewalls. During the Covid-19 outbreak that saw 95% of the workforce working from home, this was nevertheless interpreted to include…
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Pay Attention!
Last week I received a company wide e-mail at one of the companies that I consult for. The gist of it was that anyone whose cell phone disturbed a meeting – whether it be a ring, an alarm, a text, an e-mail – would be donating $10 (per incident) to the charity that this company…
The World According to Mitch 