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Perspectives on Communication with Guest Fatima Khan, Corporate Counsel at Okta
Perspectives on Communication with Guest Fatima Khan, Corporate Counsel at Okta
The Perspective on Communication Q&A series highlights the experiences and opinions from cross-functional disciplines.
Melanie Ensign
Feb 23, 2022
Privacy Outrage: How to Avoid it When You Can and Mitigate it When You Can’t
Privacy Outrage: How to Avoid it When You Can and Mitigate it When ...
One of the things our clients routinely ask for is help preparing for privacy incidents that don’t involve security breaches–things that…
Melanie Ensign
Feb 17, 2022
This Year’s Strategic Relationships: Do You Have What You Need?
This Year’s Strategic Relationships: Do You Have What You Need?
Welcome to 2022! This year — as in every previous year — relationships will be absolutely critical to the success of your team.
Melanie Ensign
Jan 17, 2022
Perspectives on Communication With Guest Lourdes M. Turrecha, Founder, The Rise of Privacy Tech
Perspectives on Communication With Guest Lourdes M. Turrecha, Found...
Experiences & opinions from some of the cross-functional disciplines that we, as security & privacy communicators, work with most.
Melanie Ensign
Jan 5, 2022
The Rise of Privacy Tech: Defining the Privacy Tech Landscape 2021
The Rise of Privacy Tech: Defining the Privacy Tech Landscape 2021
Last month, the Rise of Privacy Tech (TROPT) published their foundational white paper to define and fuel the nascent market of privacy…
Melanie Ensign
Dec 15, 2021
Exercising Influence as the Security Team: Look for Friction Not Just Fuel
Exercising Influence as the Security Team: Look for Friction Not Ju...
How do you drive security considerations into decisions made by other teams or individual stakeholders?
Melanie Ensign
Nov 15, 2021
The Communication Theory of Resilience: 5 Tips for Security & Privacy Organizations
The Communication Theory of Resilience: 5 Tips for Security & Priva...
The Community Theory of Resilience offers five communicative processes through which resilience can be developed and nourished.
Melanie Ensign
Oct 13, 2021
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Resilience is a Team Sport Chief Security Officers Must Learn How to Coach
Resilience is a Team Sport Chief Security Officers Must Learn How to Coach
One of the most overlooked aspects of incident response is how the culture, communication, and resilience of security teams will change.
Melanie Ensign
May 7, 2021
Rescue Diving and the Psychology of Security & Privacy Incidents
Rescue Diving and the Psychology of Security & Privacy Incidents
In scuba diving, the most common cause of emergencies is poor judgment. In my professional experience advising senior executives and…
Melanie Ensign
Oct 29, 2020
The Land Before Facebook
The Land Before Facebook
Marketing in the Era of Consumer Privacy Awareness with Lessons from the Past
Melanie Ensign
Aug 19, 2021
Sincere and Effective Apologies
Sincere and Effective Apologies
Anger about what you did may never go away, but a sincere apology and restitution can help you save the relationship.
Melanie Ensign
Sep 15, 2021
Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons: Privacy is Power
Over the past year, Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons has become one of my favorite weekly tech podcasts. It’s timely and accessible. I recently…
Melanie Ensign
Oct 11, 2021
The Socially Responsible Tech Company
The Socially Responsible Tech Company
An engaging discussion on how crises are managed by socially responsible companies and the communications challenges they face.
Melanie Ensign
Jul 31, 2020
The Story of Discernible
The Story of Discernible
Confronting Crisis Heroism
Melanie Ensign
Jun 8, 2020
Communicators: Steer Clear of ‘Privacy Washing’
Communicators: Steer Clear of ‘Privacy Washing’
Danielle Citron and Daniel Solove recently published a fantastic roadmap for courts to understand different types of privacy harm and…
Melanie Ensign
Feb 19, 2021
Communication Gaps in Security & Privacy
Communication Gaps in Security & Privacy
Communication strategies work a lot like compound interest — the longer you wait to invest, the less value you accumulate over time.
Melanie Ensign
Jun 22, 2020
Metacommunication and Bug Bounty Programs
Metacommunication and Bug Bounty Programs
What metacommunication do bug bounty teams and researchers need to be aware of? The most important are context and relationships.
Melanie Ensign
Aug 17, 2021
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