More and more employees are circumventing corporate controls to be more productive.
Tammy Erickson of nGenera says “The organizations of today are perfectly designed to meet the challenge of the 20th century. They’re not right for what we’re doing today.” | There’s a growing risk within most organisations today that is clearly an insider threat but is also clearly not caused by a disgruntled or disillusioned employee. In fact, the new insider threat is more likely to manifest itself as a gung-ho new employee or contractor. |
| The lifestyle hacker does not have malicious intent. Nevertheless, the lifestyle hacker is highly successful at skirting various corporate controls put in place to protect security-related websites and critical endpoints |
| This conundrum exists as the inherent conflict between those who make the rules and those who break the rules, both of whom are driven by the exact same motivation–being more productive in the work environment. |
| One Wall Street firm we’re both very familiar with estimated that 45 percent of all security incidents in the past two years were lifestyle hacks.Read more at cio.co.nz |
An example of the new business tools becoming available, and how they can be applied through a new platform (smartphone) How cool is it to start a meeting or conversation with a comment about something you could have known ONLY if you did your homework? The ability to develop clear and meaningful conversations often hinges on the first thing that pops out of your mouth. If you can spark a relationship based on awareness, common understanding, or a philosophical viewpoint, you have a better chance of achieving your business (and personal) objectives. |
Gist  came a long about a year ago as a [beta] web app designed to create the ideal intersection of your contacts, conversations, and the web. The idea to aggregate and mashup these three elements came at exactly the right moment; social media had reached a point where a fair percentage of online conversations had fragmented the notion of your businesses’ presence across the web. Read more at iphonecto.com |
Social Media Cannot Deliver Business Value If Employees Are Denied Access |
A survey of 1,400 CIOs in the US published by Robert Half Technology (see press release) shows some interesting – and indeed worrying – results about the number of enterprises that prevent their employees from accessing social media sites from the workplace. |
Honestly, I find these numbers quite appalling. I do appreciate that security and productivity concerns are still dominant, but I suspect this is directly connected to a limited understanding of how social media can deliver value and the mechanisms to get there. |
| Staying in denial and closing the fences is not an option. Whether to attract the best employees, or to make them more effective and productive, whether to stay closer to their customers and suppliers, whether to sense emerging needs and trends, enterprises in all sectors will have to let their staff join social media. Read more at blogs.gartner.com |
Recurring outages, either through system failure, or malicious attack, highlight the drawback of centralised control points (single point of failure) | RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized |
Recurring outages on major networking sites such as Twitter and
LinkedIn, along with incidents where Twitter members were
mysteriously dropped for days at a time,
have led many people to challenge the centralized control exerted by
companies running social networks. Whether you’re a street
demonstrator or a business analyst, you may well have come to depend
on Twitter. We may have been willing to build our virtual houses on
shaky foundations might when they were temporary beach huts; but now
we need to examine the ground on which many are proposing to build our
virtual shopping malls and even our virtual federal offices.
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| Instead of the constant churning among the commercial sites du
jour (Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter), the next
generation of social networking increasingly appears to require a
decentralized, peer-to-peer infrastructure.Read more at radar.oreilly.com |
In a connected world, you can be stalked via your friends - demonstrating how hard it is to design privacy/security into a social networking site. | Dark Stalking on Facebook |
Last week I decided to play with event searches. If a large number of my friends are attending an event, there’s a good chance I’ll find it interesting, and I’d like to know about it. FQL makes this sort of thing really easy; in fact, finding all your friends’ events is on their Sample FQL Queries page.
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Using the example provided by Facebook, I dropped the query into my sandbox, and looked at the results which came back. The results were disturbing. I didn’t just get back future events my friends were attending. I got everything they had been invited to: past and present, attending or not.
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While I’ve always considered people’s own carelessness to be the biggest threats to their own privacy, in the social 2.0 world it seems we need to be increasingly worried about our friends, too!
Read more at pjf.id.au |
New Keys For Diffusion Of Information In Social Networks |
ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2009) — The spread of information in social networks, something of crucial importance in awareness and marketing campaigns or the spreading of rumours and viruses, for example, is largely determined by the great heterogeneity of internauts in their response time, according to the researchers. Traditional models estimated that internauts respond in approximately one day and that, as such, it took one day for information to be transmitted. |
However, this study, based on an actual experiment by IBM to observe and quantify the spread of business information in social networks, points out that it occurs at two speeds due to user activity. “Those who respond very quickly to e-mails, technology addicts who are always connected, are the ones responsible for spreading certain rumours or campaigns quickly via Internet,” notes Esteban Moro, professor of Mathematics at the UC3M. Read more at www.sciencedaily.com |
Cops on the Tweet to Solve Crimes and Educate the Public |
Neighborhood policing traditionally meant developing personal relationships with local residents to build trust and cooperation. In many communities, that face-to-face communication has fallen by the wayside as budgets have contracted. The advent of Web 2.0 tools and social media sites has allowed police to reach hundreds of residents in real time. |
| Community policing in the true sense isn’t what it used to be given the state of local-level funding for hiring officers. Although police departments may not have the resources to engage the community face to face as often as they like, they’re bridging the gap with Web 2.0 tools like Facebook and MySpace, as well as specialized law enforcement tools like CrimeDex and CrimeReports.com. Read more at www.govtech.com |
The UK have produced a graphic video of the dangers of texting. What audiences should they be shown too?
News networks have been buzzing about this graphic public service announcement — currently being shown in the UK — about the dangers of texting while driving. Aimed at teen drivers, this disturbing and graphic video shows what happens when a young girl loses her focus behind the wheel while text messaging a friend and a multi-car crash ensues. |
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The growing risk of the lifestyle hacker
