Gary P Shewan

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Gary Shewan

Gary Shewan

UK

People and process

When you’re having very exciting discussions about integrating AI into your business, do make sure you’re looking at the risk elements to your business (people and process) with as much energy. Ex-athletic director accused of framing principal with AI arrested at airport with gunBaltimore County Police charged Dazhon

Big Tech has lost their mind

I think it’s widely accepted now that Jack Welch and his ‘rank and yank’ approach to ruthlessly drive productivity was very short-sighted and not great for a sustainable business. Similar parallels could be drawn with Boeing and their move from engineering/quality to growth at all cost. https://www.

Train your teams

A question or a challenge for anyone who has a security team in their org. It came off the back of a conversation about communication to Leadership and buy-in, and I don’t see it mentioned a lot. If you don’t have some sort of Selling/Marketing/Storytelling/Presentation

CloudNordic goes under

How bad can ransomware be? Last year the Danish cloud hosting company CloudNordic suffered a particularly vicious attack. Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack | TechCrunchCloudNordic said a ransomware attack destroyed customer data on its servers, including primary and secondary backups.TechCrunchZack Whittaker Eight months later

The sound of online trackers

A core problem when explaining technology to normal people. How do you get across what can be a complex problem or issue easily and succinctly so folk can understand? It takes practice. Explaining privacy, data trackers, data brokers, data flow, cookies, legislation etc could easily be boring (so very easy)

Earth Day 2024

It was Earth Day yesterday. I have mixed feelings about it (Greenwashing). I’ve posted about the power consumption needs of Big Tech and the ‘next big thing’ but finally found an article on the water impact, which has gone under the radar somewhat. The Secret Water Footprint of AI