corporate censorship

Is it hypocritical for a company to tell employee’s to “be the CEO of your own career” or similar language and then block all access to any web site that list job opening or career advice? I think so.

Many web sites categorized by filtering software as “job sites” offer excellent articles and perspectives on work/life balance, career coaching, and self improvement. They can actually help employees become more knowledgeable about their jobs and industry. But some companies are afraid of their employees looking at open jobs.

Amazingly short sighted in my opinion.

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Ethics and security

Once again Kim Cameron feeds us a nuggest with this post on cybersecurity and ethics (http://bit.ly/91Gst). Cybersecurity has been perceived as a world full of cowboys. It’s time to step it up in manner similar to other professions. #yam

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Identity for the smart grid

The Smart Grid screams for a User-Centric Identity Metasystem but instead we get a brain dead unsecure mess.

If you haven’t figured it out by now, I have some eclectic interests and at some level they all do interconnect.  At least I THINK they interconnect.

I’ve a sensor network in my home and follow the whole smart grid, power monitoring space.  Some day I’ll publish some info on what I have in my home and what I plan to do. 

So, I was terrified to read about how little attention is paid to security of power meters.  What planet are these companies on that build sloppy embedded software that is not secure.  The bad guys won’t need to blow up power pylons, they can just send out a command to their bot net and turn everything off.

Did you like the way I got a plug in for the User-Centric Identity Metasystem proposal that Kim Cameron posted earlier this week?

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Don’t ban social media in the workplace

Please wake up corporate security, privacy officers, and Luddite CEO’s and CIO’s and DON’T ban social media in the workplace.  What’s the point?  You’re improving productivity, saving people from themselves or saving the organization from some boogeyman?

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Gartner-Analysts-Decry-Facebook-Twitter-Bans-at-Work/?kc=EWKNLCSM081208STR1

As this eweek article points out social media tools may not be ready for prime time enterprise deployments but they can add value.

Based on experience I’d say blocking access to social tools just makes your staff mad.  So why spread ill will.  I do believe that organizations should develop reasonable usage policies that provide staffs with an understanding of the boundaries of usage.

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