A user holding a security alert faces a maze of support forms, email routes, tickets, and dead ends before the report reaches a security operations team.

Security Reporting Is a Security Control. Treat It Like One.

This is Part 2 of When Your Brand Becomes the Bait, a three-part series examining brand-impersonation phishing, security-reporting friction, and the privacy risks created when abuse reports are forwarded to suspected operators. In the first article in this series, I described a phishing attempt that reached me through Nextdoor shortly…
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A Fake Nextdoor Page Asked for My Credit Card. What Should Happen Next?

This is Part 1 of When Your Brand Becomes the Bait, a three-part series examining brand-impersonation phishing, security-reporting friction, and the privacy risks created when abuse reports are forwarded to suspected operators. On Friday, July 31, I posted several items for sale on Nextdoor. Almost immediately, I received a direct…
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Always On Culture and Global Teams

I have always been a big opponent of “Always On Cultures.”  Those are ones where you are expected to frequently check emails and IM outside of work hours.  Don’t get me wrong, there are times when big projects are going live, or big deals are near closing, that you need…
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The Lasting Company Pain After Layoffs

Firms often don’t comprehend the extent of the damage that continues internally, as well as externally, after layoffs.  There are several reasons to take these all into consideration.  Once you understand them, you stand a chance of better mitigating them, and it also refines your layoff plans.  This improves your…
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