Golly gee
willikers! Even the DoJ recognizes “Best Practices.” Does your
organization?
Alston & Bird write:
On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, the Department of Justice Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) Cybersecurity Unit issued new, detailed guidance on data breach incident response best practices. The document was announced at an invitation-only round table hosted by DOJ and provides guidance on what DOJ regards as “best practices for victims and potential victims to address the risk of data breaches, before, during and after cyber-attacks and intrusions.” The document was prepared with input from federal prosecutors as well as private sector companies that experienced cybersecurity incidents.
Read more on Privacy
& Data Security Law BLOG.
So, can this guidance now become a standard to
reference in data breach litigation? I know a guidance does not have
the force of regulation or law, but like HIPAA, is
this setting a best practices standard that plaintiffs can point to?
[One can only
hope. Bob]
“All the
news that's fit to digitize?”
The
New York Times Company posted a $14 million net loss for the
first quarter of 2015, driven by a pension settlement charge and a
drop in lucrative print advertising. But digital subscriptions
continued to show solid growth, the company said on Thursday, and
digital advertising grew at a double-digit pace.
Adjusted operating profit grew to about $59
million, from about $57 million in the same quarter last year. Cost
reductions helped to offset a drop in revenue.
In its
quarterly earnings, the Times Company said it added 47,000 new
digital subscribers, for a total of about 957,000, a 20 percent
increase from the first quarter of 2014. It was the strongest
quarter for these subscriptions since the fourth quarter of 2012.
Digital subscriptions were responsible for $46 million in revenue in
the quarter, up 14 percent from the same quarter last year.
An interesting business opportunity. Free cameras
for a two year subscription? Can we create some A.I. software that
reviews the video in real time and flags “incidents” to
dispatchers? No need to rely on the beat officer to turn on the
camera. Faster backup and if supervisors can be in immediate
contact, the opportunity to cool things off?
The Big
Money in Police Body Cameras
… Taser has two body-camera-related products.
The first is the body cameras themselves, video cameras that can be
worn on the chest or head, which the company calls the
Axon series. The second is essentially a
Dropbox for body-camera footage—a digital storage service to which
departments can subscribe—which the company calls Evidence.com.
… In its embrace of Evidence.com,
Taser shows all the proclivities of a modern tech company. The
appeal of its business model is that money will come from selling an
ongoing subscription service (like Netflix or Spotify) rather than
one-time sales of technology made of plastic and glass (like any old
Android phone).
Or, as the analyst Steve Dyer told
the Washington Post in December: “The upfront cameras
themselves are not that interesting. They are, or will be, fairly
quickly commoditized. What investors will pay for is a recurring
revenue stream.”
An infographic to teach my “older” students
what the youngest technology users are doing.
How Has
Being a Parent Changed in the Social Media Age?
The rise of social
media and smartphones has greatly changed what being a parent is
like. Now, parents don’t just need to worry about what kinds of
dangers their kids might be facing in the outside world, but also how
they are spending their time online. Parents need to take an active
role in dealing with things like parental
controls, staying
up on the latest tech, and more in order to keep up with their
kids.
Sounds daunting? Well, the infographic below from
TeenSafe
tells you everything you need to know about parenting in the age of
social media. It’s a new world out there!
An update! For my computer using students (that's
all of them).
Take it
from Microsoft! 8 Best Free Ebooks from MSDN’s Huge Collection
We all like free
stuff, right? Well, Microsoft
just keeps giving. The Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN)
maintains a massive amount of literature for developers, old or new,
providing valuable information on all manner of Microsoft platforms:
Windows 8, Office, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell functions, the Microsoft
System Centre and much
more.
They’ve seen it prudent to release
almost 300 eBooks, free for our consumption.
… Aside from the handy Windows
7, 8, and 8.1 shortcut guides, there is a document titled Windows
To Go. Windows To Go explores an enterprise operating
system running from a USB drive, specifically tailored for
use within educational facilities.
… There are a several good
guides for Office users
… The BYOD
Devices – A Deployment Guide was an interesting read. The
eBook offers a practical guide to rolling out a BYOD strategy in
educational facilities.
Another
article for my Data Management class.
How PepsiCo
Convinced You That Lays Were Cool Again
… Anyone who had a chip idea in mind could
visit Lays’ Facebook page, enter some information about their
flavor and be rewarded with a shareable image of “their” bag of
chips. The company teamed up with Facebook to turn the “like”
button into a vote of “I’d Eat That.” Lays’ Facebook cover
photo became a rotating billboard, which featured a new submission
every few minutes.
… “The days of focus groups — it’s
over,” she said. “It’s really about observing behavior. Big
data comes together with granular understanding of human behavior.”
Tasty
Tuesday! For my starving students (and their pudgy professor?)
Taco Bell
to Give Away Free Biscuit Tacos as Breakfast Battle Rages On
… On May 5 (a.k.a. Cinco de Mayo), the
fast-food chain is giving away free Biscuit Tacos between 7 a.m. and
11 a.m. in honor of “Breakfast Defector Day.” The brand
announced the giveaway today using Twitter’s live-streaming app
Periscope
-- a social media-savvy move from a brand dedicated to marketing to
millennials.
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