Erin K. Banks
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2021 Technical Goals
Posted in cloud security, cloud security and compliance, personal on January 1, 2021
Of course I have my mental and physical health goals that I want to focus on in 2021 but I have been recently contemplating my technical goals for 2021. These are goals that are based on helping me excel in my technical knowledge and grow in my career. I have not had the traditional path […]
Is Convenience Worth Sacrificing Privacy?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2020
As you may have heard, Amazon is getting into the Pharmacy market and this scares the shit out of me. For anyone that knows me, they know that I tend to be freaky about the information that I share. I don’t even give my real name when I order at stores. It freaks me out […]
banks rants – 10 Year Challenge Debate
Posted in banks rants, security on January 23, 2019
We started off 2019 with a social media challenge called the #10YearChallenge. It really isn’t a challenge but an opportunity for people to feel better about themselves, to demonstrate climate change, or to create some great memes. After this “challenge” started there was some debating over how the “challenge” images were being used. Now I […]
banks rants – your 2019 security resolution
Posted in banks rants, security on January 10, 2019
We all have our personal resolutions each year. Whether it be about mental health, physical health, financials, time, all of it is to make us better citizens of the earth and our lives. We usually have these goals because we want to take back control of our own life and hoping, that as a result, […]
banks rants – encrypted documents and passwords
Posted in banks rants, passwords, rants, security on August 20, 2018
This blog post is going to be real simple… real simple. I have ONE rule for this blog post… do NOT send a plain text password in an email. You can send a hint to a password or a third party tool to access the password but do not send a CLEAR password. If you […]
Show your support for Our SAM Foundation (and Me!)
Posted in personal on August 17, 2018
According to a recent CDC report, 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017. Over 40% of those cases involved fentanyl. My cousin, Samuel Gillman, was among those lost. He died July 22, 2017 at the age of 24 from a fentanyl-laced heroin overdose. Samuel was – and remains – incredibly important to me, I […]
banks rants – amazon echo… this IS a privacy issue
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, banks rants, data analytics, policies, security on June 4, 2018
Yeah… technology is listening in on our conversations and sending it to people on our contacts lists and no one seems to care. Yup. Amazon Echo is going just that and people seem to be ignoring it or simply forgetting it because for some reason, they trust these large organizations?? I hope that is not […]
banks rants – GDPR and phishing attacks
Posted in security on May 25, 2018
It is May 25, 2018 and it is officially GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) day because it is officially in effect. The fines are HUGE and that is the point… to truly hit the big businesses where it matters most… their wallets. It effects all EU (European Union) countries only but it impacts United States […]
banks rants – stop blaming someone else when it comes to privacy on the internet
Posted in banks rants, big data, data analytics on May 14, 2018
I know… I know… another blogpost about Facebook and privacy but all the other posts were just driving me a little crazy and I just wanted the opportunity to talk about it without emotion. I understand that people are angry and upset because maybe they just don’t understand what is happening behind the scenes. But […]
My Big Data Conversation with Spotify
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, big data, data analytics on April 6, 2018
<this Spotify blog was originally posted on the Dell EMC blog site> I spoke with Eliot Van Buskirk ( @listeningpost ), Data Storyteller at Spotify, as part of my Big Data Conversations series for Dell EMC. Note that this is not a product or technology blog and certainly there are no endorsements implied from either […]
