State of Cybercrime

Budgets and Ethics

Episode Summary

Right now, many companies are planning 2018’s budget. As always, it is a challenge to secure enough funds to help with IT’s growing responsibilities. Whether you’re a nonprofit, small startup or a large enterprise, you’ll be asked to stretch every dollar. In this week’s podcast, we discussed the challenges a young sysadmin volunteer might face when tasked with setting up the IT infrastructure for a nonprofit.

Episode Notes

Right now, many companies are planning 2018’s budget. As always, it is a challenge to secure enough funds to help with IT’s growing responsibilities. Whether you’re a nonprofit, small startup or a large enterprise, you’ll be asked to stretch every dollar. In this week’s podcast, we discussed the challenges a young sysadmin volunteer might face when tasked with setting up the IT infrastructure for a nonprofit.

And for a budget interlude, I asked the panelists about the growing suggestion for engineers to take philosophy classes to help with ethics related questions.

Other Articles Discussed:

• PC that will self-destruct if tampered
• FTC’s panel discussion on growing security and privacy challenges with connected cars
• Dilemmas with Google’s Project Zero

Panelists: Cindy Ng, Kilian Englert, Mike Thompson, Mike Buckbee