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Budgets and Ethics

State of Cybercrime

English - July 12, 2017 13:00 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 48 ratings
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Right now, many companies are planning 2018’s budget. As always, it is a challenge to secure enough funds to help with IT’s growing responsibilities. Whether you’re a nonprofit, small startup or a large enterprise, you’ll be asked to stretch every dollar. In this week’s podcast, we discussed the challenges a young sysadmin volunteer might face when tasked with setting up the IT infrastructure for a nonprofit.


And for a budget interlude, I asked the panelists about the growing suggestion for engineers to take philosophy classes to help with ethics related questions.


Other Articles Discussed:

PC that will self-destruct if tampered
FTC’s panel discussion on growing security and privacy challenges with connected cars
Dilemmas with Google’s Project Zero

Tool of the week: honeyλ, a simple, serverless application designed to create and monitor URL {honey}tokens, on top of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway

Panelists: Cindy Ng, Kilian Englert, Mike Thompson, Mike Buckbee