Information rights, knowledge management and random other musings
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
Abraham Maslow
Dear infosec people,
You do a tough job in a complex, high-stress and fast-paced environment. I admire the cleverness of your technical capabilities and respect the challenges you face.
Having said that; PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THE GDPR UNLESS YOU HAVE REALLY STUDIED DATA PROTECTION.
This is the text of a presentation I gave recently during Infosec18 week. By popular demand (i.e. more than three people asked), I’m re-posting it here for a wider audience. I also intend to record it as a downloadable audio file at some point when I have some free time (hahaha, what’s that???). I took out the specific case studies for the sake of brevity, but I will post those separately as Part 2.
I read today in infosecurity magazine that the law firm Appleby whose tax-sheltering habits are currently splattered all over the news, thanks to a massive leak of internal data; have claimed that a) the attack was apparently a sophisticated professional-grade hack and b) there was no evidence of data having left their systems.
I laughed out loud
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