Managers,
know thy systems! If you have or want a government contract…
Cyber
Hygiene is the Key to CMMC Compliance Preparedness
The
Defense Department’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, or
CMMC, auditing process aims to create consistent cybersecurity
practices for contractors that do business with the federal
government—and protect the defense supply chain from security
breaches.
Defense
contractors will be required to prove they have—and they are
using—the mandatory cyber practices to achieve each
level of cyber maturity.
… The
challenge is that many contractors don’t have full visibility into
their organization’s network and security, which leaves their
networks—along with DOD networks—vulnerable to attacks. They
need complete, continuous threat monitoring and visibility into all
assets on the network—an increasingly complex goal in the internet
of things, bring-your-own-device, and work-from-home world.
(Related)
Cybersecurity
teams are struggling with a lack of visibility into key security
controls
89%
of security professionals are most concerned about phishing, web and
ransomware
attacks.
This is especially alarming, considering that only 48% confirm that
they have continuous visibility into the risk area of phishing, web
and ransomware, a Balbix report reveals.
Managers,
know the law!
FoxRothschild:
U.S. States And Territories Data Breach Statutes (Updated)
Fox Rothschild’s Privacy and Data Security practice group maintains this searchable PDF document as well as the Data Breach 411 app to inform businesses of the breach notification statutes in each of the 50 states, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, so they can better understand their rights, obligations and potential liability.
Download
their free
e-book.
Strong
privacy is good security!
New
Data Privacy Report Reveals Grim Numbers for Organizations With Poor
Privacy Practices: An 80% Increase in the Chance of a Data Breach
In
spite of a seemingly never-ending stream of high profile data
breaches and hacks, a worrying number of organizations still feel
that updating and optimizing privacy practices is a backburner item.
A new
study from
data privacy compliance platform Osano provides some very sharp and
eye-popping numbers to the contrary; sloppy privacy practices can be
tied directly to an 80% increase in the likelihood of being breached.
I’m
not concerned. My AI tells me it is trustworthy.
AI
Update: EU High-Level Working Group Publishes Self Assessment for
Trustworthy AI
On
July 17, 2020, the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence
set up by the European Commission (“AI
HLEG”)
published The
Assessment List for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
(“Assessment
List”). The purpose of the Assessment List is to help companies
identify the risks of AI systems they develop, deploy or procure, and
implement appropriate measures to mitigate those risks.
More summary
than update.
Leading
Law Enforcement Facial Recognition Provider Clearview AI Faces Joint
International Privacy Investigation
With
sales already halted in Canada due to an ongoing investigation by the
country’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Clearview AI is
facing additional global pressure as the United Kingdom and Australia
open a joint privacy investigation into the facial recognition
software provider.
… The
company had operated below the public’s radar for years
before major social media platforms (such as Facebook and YouTube)
took action against it for violating terms of service by scraping
billions of photos of
people from them to supply its facial recognition database.
… Clearview
AI faces developing issues in Europe as well. The European Data
Protection Board, the body in charge of application of the EU’s
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), declared in June that the
company’s facial recognition technology is
likely illegal under
the data protection rules that all members states are subject to.
Sweden’s data protection authority initiated a privacy
investigation into the company in March.
Justice
for Justin?
Justin
Bieber Strikes a Brutal Blow to Internet Trolls Everywhere
… Justin
Bieber might have just struck a blow that ultimately leads to the
death of the internet troll.
This
isn’t the outcome anyone expected when two
anonymous Twitter accounts accused Justin Bieber of
sexual assault.
Like
all claims of sexual misconduct, the Bieber allegations should have
been – and thankfully, were – taken seriously.
It
didn’t take long for the truth to start coming out. Bieber not
only denied the charges but filed a full-on defamation lawsuit
against the accusers. Based on the evidence
his camp has provided,
it seems likely the allegations are patently false.
The
defamation lawsuit quickly hit a hurdle. The two “women” who
accused him made the allegations using anonymous Twitter accounts.
No one knows their real names – or if they are even women at all.
Justin
Bieber’s lawyer, Evan N. Spiegel, asked Los Angeles Superior Court
Judge Terry Green for permission to subpoena information about the
accounts from Twitter:
We
just want to uncover who is behind these two accounts, and it may be
the same person.
The
judge granted Bieber’s request.
A
different perspective.
Want
to buy a parrot? Please login via Facebook.
In
Bangladesh, there is no Amazon. There is no eBay. If
you want to buy a dress or a crested finch from the comfort of your
home, you have to use Facebook.
Perspective.
Jeff
Bezos hated ads — now Amazon is America's top advertiser
Amazon
spent nearly $7 billion on U.S. advertising in 2019, making it the
top ad spender in the country, according to a new
analysis from
Kantar featured in AdAge.
… Total
U.S. ad spending in 2019 (in millions):
Amazon: $6,879
Comcast Corp.: $6,142
AT&T: $5,484
Procter & Gamble: $4,281
Walt Disney Co.: $3,154
Alphabet (Google): $3,130
Verizon: $3,071
Charter Communications: $3,044
American Express: $2,990
General Motors Co.: $2,952
Who
was that masked rider? (Certainly not Bob)
Google
Map revamps its bike routes for easy riding
CNET
–
“To
help people get around this summer in an eco-friendly — and healthy
— way, Google
Maps has
added new features to its offerings for cyclists. Users can now
access the most up-to-date bike routes generated by machine learning
algorithms, as well as data from government authorities and community
contributions. In addition, Google Maps now offers better end-to-end
directions that include docked bikeshare program information. The
docked bikeshare information will be available in 10 cities
worldwide, including Chicago, New York and Washington DC in the US.
Users can also access the new bikeshare information in London, Mexico
City, Montreal, Rio De Janeiro, São Paulo, Taipei and New Taipei
City…”
Tools.
Did you take hand written notes before ‘everyone’ got a
smartphone?
Convert
Handwritten Notes Into Google Documents
This
week my Practical
Ed Tech Tip of the Week newsletter was
about tools for digitizing physical notes. There are tools like
CamScanner
and Office
Lens
specifically made for that task. There are also tools that have the
"hidden" capability to digitize physical notes. One of
those tools is Google Drive.
When
you snap a picture and upload it to Google Drive you can then have it
converted into a Google Document that you can edit and share just
like any other Google Doc. In the following
video I
demonstrate how easy it is to use Google Drive to convert physical
notes into Google Docs.
Too
stressful to read a real book?
The
LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection
Internet
Archive – “LibriVox
–
founded in 2005 – is a community of volunteers from all over the
world who record public domain texts: poetry, short stories, whole
books, even dramatic works, in many different languages. All
LibriVox recordings are in the public domain in the USA and available
as free downloads on the internet.
If you are not in the USA, please check your country’s copyright
law before downloading.”
“The
Internet Archive is home to thousands
of recordings from Librivox —an
organization of volunteers that turns public domain texts into free
audiobooks. Take a long drive and listen to classic
novels such
as Treasure
Island, Little
Women, or
Frankenstein.
Go on a hike while enjoying books
about nature like
Walden
or
The
Call of the Wild.
Or have a picnic while listening
to poetry from
the world’s greatest writers.”
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