An over-reaction due to panic, or over-sold by a vendor? Probably the result of no plan to guide their response.
https://www.pogowasright.org/privacy-concerns-raised-about-rpis-response-to-data-breach/
Privacy concerns raised about RPI’s response to data breach
Many data breaches result in privacy concerns due to data access or exfiltration. But here’s a case where a school’s incident response is causing a new set of privacy concerns. The original incident was covered on DataBreaches.net, and it appears that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has not disclosed anything significant since then. Now more people are demanding answers and protesting one of the school’s new requirements in response to the breach.
Rachel Silberstein reports:
… With RPI systems still down, students, faculty and staff have no access to their emails, RPI websites, dining dollars, or Wi-Fi accounts.
The university is also requiring all students and faculty to download “security software” on any device connected to the university’s network as it begins to partially restore services.
And from that arises privacy concerns and protests.
Students and faculty are organizing on Reddit to push back on the requirement to download the CrowdStrike Falcon program, which they say allows an outside company “kernel-level” access to all parts of the computer — such as apps opened, websites visited, and email communication — creating new security and privacy concerns, the student said.
“In addition, this gives the school the ability to remotely access students’ computers without consent or knowledge at all, allowing them to transfer files between them. This is a huge privacy and student rights concern, and may not work well for contracts involving IP-sensitive material,” the student wrote in a message to the Times Union. “From my research into CrowdStrike Falcon, contents of emails/files are not read, however, it can be at any time without user knowledge.”
Read more on Times Union.
Collateral damage, and a few new resources.
ANOTHER MAJOR CYBERATTACK! HERE’S WHY SECURITY VALIDATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER
Heard the news about Americans suddenly hoarding oil? You would probably be surprised to learn that the reason for that is a cyberattack. The most recent disruption in American oil supply is not the result of low oil production but the forced shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline following a ransomware attack.
After the SolarWinds and Codecov attacks, it is alarming that another high-profile cybercrime has managed to penetrate the defenses of a supposedly technologically advanced country. To make matters worse, it turns out the perpetrators of the attack are saying they didn’t mean to cause problems.
… In its SOCTA 2021 report, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation or Europol rang the alarm on the surge of cybercrimes including attacks on critical infrastructure.
… According to a study reported on Cybercrime Magazine, global cybercrime damages are set to breach the $6 trillion level in 2021.
… Simply put, people and organizations never learn from previous cyber attacks. This is evidenced by something as basic as the refusal to use stronger passwords. A study by NordPass found that the use of shockingly weak passwords was one of the reasons why organizations were successfully attacked.
Perhaps we should be doing this? Is this simple enough?
Grand Research Challenges Facing Ethically Aligned Artificial Intelligence
Despite the impressive progress of artificial intelligence, performance of many systems has shown severe bias, horrible discrimination, and fatal errors. These immoral flaws have triggered philosophers, roboticists, futurists who have flooded the community with a proliferation of ethical principles for disciplining these systems. Regardless of the ambiguity and lack of consensus on these principles, the missing block is the translation of suggested normative principles into best practices, measures, regulations, policies, and research agenda. The first objective of this study is to introduce this emerging landscape of ethics to the information system community. The second objective is to reshuffle suggested principles, summarize them, and reproduce them in a form of ten grand research challenges and subfields that may guide future endeavors.
If only I cared…
https://repositorio.comillas.edu/xmlui/handle/11531/55658
Care ethics in the era of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is changing the world of business and that leaves many ethical gaps behind. Nowadays, technology companies mark the rhythm of business and technology innovations as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, and Business Analytics mark enterprises' rhythm (Wiener et al. 2020). In this scenario, the accelerated pace of science and technology leaves many ethical gaps to address (Jonas 1984; 1985): automation and unemployment (Dodel & Mesch 2020; Kim & Scheller-Wolf 2019; Wright & Schultz 2018), AI and decision-making (Cervantes et al. 2016; Robbins & Wallance 2007), and the like. In this chapter, we proposed the ethics of care as moral grounding for the AI era in business. The chapter's structure is as follows: first, we present the context of the arrival of AI and its ethical implications. Second, we present ethics of care, its main premises, and its application in business ethics and stakeholder theory. Finally, we approach ethical problems in management decision-making from a care ethics perspective, and then we propose a principle for companies. We ended up with some conclusions and future research.
Think of all that free government data in a variety of hard to access formats. What if AI could make in available and comprehensible?
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/harness-agile-analytics-to-turn-big-data-into-big-business/
HARNESS AGILE ANALYTICS TO TURN BIG DATA INTO BIG BUSINESS
… Data is redefining decision-making on every front – from operations, R&D, engineering right through to go-to-market engagement strategies.
The data economy is already a multi-billion-dollar industry, generating employment for millions, yet we are only just beginning to tap its potential. Digital transformation is on the agenda in every boardroom, the majority of businesses use some level of AI and analytics and automation are becoming a routine part of many business areas. The secret to unlocking future prosperity in almost any business, whether established or a digital native, lies with the data.
Perspective. Smart guy saying interesting things.
Daniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust is a fascinating problem’
You should you know.
https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-why-start-your-podcast/
7 Reasons Why You Should Start Your Own Podcast
… have you ever thought about starting your own podcast? If you haven't, you might want to consider changing your mind. Here are several reasons why you should start your own podcast.
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