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banks rants – amazon echo… this IS a privacy issue
Posted by Erin K. Banks 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 – never forget it is YOUR data
Posted by Erin K. Banks in banks rants, data analytics, policies, security on April 2, 2018
Recently there has been a lot of drama about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica and what they did or did not do with our Facebook data but in my mind, I want to ask everyone… what were you thinking they were doing with all your data? What did you think would happen when you gave an […]
banks rants – Facebook cloned accounts
Posted by Erin K. Banks in banks rants, policies, security on February 20, 2018
I have to admit, I was not familiar with Facebook cloned accounts until last week when at least one of my friends ran into this issue. Even though USA Today wrote a report on it last year (2017), it was not something that popped into my mind… for a couple of reasons. I don’t accept […]
Breaches Preventing Shopping or Does It?
Posted by Erin K. Banks in policies, security on January 29, 2015
I recently saw this interesting “USA Snapshot” from USA Today. I love these snapshots… quick and easy and starts the discussion. It certainly started this discussion because I happened to be with my sister. I told her that I found this statistic about credit card breaches stopping people from shopping at their stores fascinating. She said […]
VMware Hardened Virtual Appliance Operations Guide
Posted by Erin K. Banks in cloud security, cloud security and compliance, compliance, policies, security, virtualization, virtualization, VMware on January 22, 2014
VMware recently released the Hardened Virtual Appliance Operations Guide. This whitepaper was written to assist with the additional components that an administrator may choose to implement on the hardened virtual appliances. You see VMware created a hardened virtual appliance “by embedding the technical requirements of the STIG in the design”. What the heck am I […]
Passwords… 123456… What’s The Big Deal?
Posted by Erin K. Banks in passwords, policies, security on December 30, 2013
I was recently flying to California and sat next to a woman on the flight who worked for a biometrics company. The discussion of biometrics for use in authentication has always been interesting topic in my world and certainly in my Federal realm. Dealing with biometrics when it comes to war times is a difficult […]
Security vs. Compliance
Posted by Erin K. Banks in cloud security and compliance, compliance, policies on July 29, 2013
As a security evangelist, I talk security… but let me be clearer, I don’t talk compliance. Ok, so maybe I talk about compliance as well but one thing that I always stress is that security and compliance are not the same thing. Not even close. Compliance is a check box mentality. Well, to be specific… […]
Do as I Say, Not as I Do – Security
Posted by Erin K. Banks in antivirus, policies, security on March 27, 2013
The great thing about my new job… I get to talk about security all day. Whether it is talking about VMware vCloud Networking and Security or the security of the hypervisor or even security requirements or just sitting around with co-workers… security is my game and I am here to play Recently though I got […]
Facebook Security
Posted by Erin K. Banks in cloud security, policies, security on March 25, 2013
This post was composed in March 2013. I wanted to make this clear because I am pretty sure that Facebook will change their security settings again and this will post will be completely out of date. You see Facebook is now allowing codes to be used when accessing your account. We all know that passwords […]
DoD New Security Safeguards
Posted by Erin K. Banks in policies, security on July 28, 2012
DoD recently sent out a tweet (@DeptofDefense) informing all that they have “bolstered safeguards for security information“. After reviewing how they bolstered it, I found it interesting that they would do so much as tweet this insight. If you review the information, it really just talked about how “management” would be notified if information was […]
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