Week 4

By: Katheryn Christiansen

     A compelling discussion came up during class-  Is it okay to use work computers for personal tasks?  Should organizations allow that?  Employers worry that employees are using online sites for non-work purposes while on the job or engaging in speech in public venues that might reflect poorly on their organization. Many organizations have been busy building into the culture that it is not okay to access non-work websites on work computers.The question of are you building a relationship of trust with your employees, and leaving all websites open or do you restrict websites that are deemed non-work related.  It is difficult for organizations to fully trust their employees to use non-work sites when there is the potential for this misuse to make organization vulnerable to cyber threats.

     We also discussed what happens when organizations have to deal with unexpected downtime. We are not going back to paper, so how are we going to deal with down time?  Do you go back to templates or do you close the doors?  It is critical to have down time procedures.  There are systemic security issues (swiss cheese model) that occur that leads to a sequence of events that therefore lead to a breakdown in the system.  98% of security system breakdown comes from the human side, so that is how the issue of security needs to be addressed.