[ This paper was originally published in LSN Briefing Magazine - March 2014 ]
Nila Hirani at Nikec Solutions on how email can help you manage the risks around leavers, from retaining contacts to reducing the risks of fraud and non-compliance.
Networking and relationships play a huge part in growing business today, making it all the more essential to understand it, manage it and leverage your contacts.
If, just like us, part of your business is comprised of solutions that are hosted in the cloud, you have important personal assets online, or you recently bought something online, your heart probably stopped for a second when you first heard about the Heartbleed bug. “Massive security bug”, “Devastating worldwide security flaw”… we all saw something similar making the headlines. Should I remove my documents stored online? Should I quickly look in my bank account and check if anything is missing?
Yes, when such news reaches the headlines in non IT magazines, when all the net security people around the world are in panic mode, it’s probably time to have a serious look at what is actually going on.
In terms of “big bugs” hurting big names of the web such as Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, there’s only a few that reach the level of damages that Heartbleed can cause. But is everyone actually affected? Fortunately not, starting with most financial institutions and other sites (including Nikec’s) that don’t use the OpenSSL technology. Relief!
Let’s take a moment to clarify the topic and understand what we are talking about. Here is what you need to know about Heartbleed.
In 1929, the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy established that any two people can be connected to each other in a maximum of six steps - the "6 degrees of separation" also known as the "6 handshakes theory". In 1994, Kevin Bacon was the centre of a student's challenge at Pennsylvania's Albright College. The challenge was to connect every film actor to Bacon in six cast lists or fewer. Bacon thought the game would die out but it never did and instead grew beyond anyone’s expectation. Following the concept, he launched a website (sixdegrees.org) that brings together people interested in helping good causes.
Networking and relationships play a huge part in growing business today, making it all the more essential to understand it, manage it and leverage your contacts.
