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Should I give up on Facebook? So many of my friends do not have accounts on Facebook for various reasons: * Waste of time * Manipulative *Exploitive and more... I have truly enjoyed Facebook as a way to connect with extended family and "old" friends and follow legitimate businesses that I support. Those have been my primary reasons for using Facebook. Therefore, I was exceptionally surprised when my Facebook account was suspended this week for reasons that Facebook has not yet shared with me. I have appealed this suspension but have renewed interest in jettisoning this social application given this unexpectedly forced opportunity to reevaluate and, perhaps, capture the time that fellow naysayers suggest I will save. Note: I use Facebook's multi-factor authentication (hence, my suspension is not due to my own authentication failures), nor do I attempt in any way to hide/obfuscate my true identity. I neither host nor post anything derogatory towards any religion, race, or political entities. Nothing illegal, nothing pornographic. I think that the suspension is a mistake as my research seems to suggest that Facebook occasionally makes. Nevertheless, I ask: Is this an opportunity to jettison my ties to Facebook? If Facebook can make such a mistake (amongst many other "things" I have likely previously overlooked), is it worth the effort to appeal to and/or appease to Facebook? I am not so sure. What do YOU think?

The CrowdStrike and Delta Airlines challenges highlight the importance of spelling-out, in detail, shared security responsibilities. We are all in this together.

Last week, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote at a joint conference event between SVCC 2024, HackTheon Sejong, and the Korea Institute of Information Security. It was my first time being on an international stage and speaking about my work in an official capacity. To be completely honest, it was nerve-wracking leading up to that moment -- from figuring out what I could talk about, navigating internal approval processes, to preparing for the actual talk almost 6,000 miles away from home base -- but I did it. Coming out on the other side of this experience, it was wonderful, and I am so glad that I did it :) In terms of content, I shared my Adventures in Security, Privacy, and Risk spanning almost two decades, sampling some of the “big” problems tackled across industry sectors and layers of the tech and organizational stack. Taking a reflective approach, I tracked major platform shifts and drew out some inspiring themes from a multi-disciplinary career journey. And of course, since everything these days includes AI, I offered a tiny thought-provoking bit on how I am revising my mental models for this major platform shift -- opinions entirely my own. Zooming out, the greater point of this post is to motivate anyone who fears public speaking or thinks countless times about telling their story: do it. As human beings, we sometimes underestimate the value of our journey, the sum total of our individual experiences and perspectives. But when that story reaches even one "random" person in the crowd, who lights up and gets inspired, or realizes that they too are on a meaningful journey... that is the sweet reward. Of course, none of this would be possible without the support of many kind souls. I'll take a moment to plug SVCSI and celebrate our 5th continuous year of organizing an annual conference, creating a platform for under-represented practitioners across academia and industry, and growing our community in a fun and meaningful way! Younghee Park Taesoo Kim Sang-Yoon Chang Nima Karimian Sara Tehranipoor Sang-Yoon Chang Jinoh Kim álvaro Cárdenas Peng Ning Guofei Gu Dooho Choi Sangman Lee Hana Lee Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Institute #svcsi #google #cybersecurity #hacktheon #sejong P.S. Sejong is a beautiful and amazingly well-planned city just a couple of hours away from Seoul... add it to your itinerary if you're visiting South Korea :) Additional links and coverage: [1] https://lnkd.in/g9FskZbK [2] https://hacktheon.org/eng/ [3] https://lnkd.in/gN85pf3J [4] https://lnkd.in/gQBTiUsM