Hello! Happy Cybersecurity Awareness Month!!
Here’s your brief of the people, ideas and technology I’m exploring for Not for Profit leaders.
In this Edition: When NFPs make lousy IT investment decisions, How are students using AI in and out of school, Noosa loses $2m to deepfakes and More!
What I’m thinking about:
- My main work is helping Not for Profits make smart IT investments to support their missions. Unfortunately, that often means helping them also recover from poor decisions they made earlier. Here are the most common lousy IT investment decisions I see and how to avoid them.
What I’m reading:
- How are students using AI? Here’s an interesting and yet disturbing study that shows outside of school, 42% of students are using AI for mental health advice and 19% are using it for a pseudo-romantic relationship. In another study from China, young people there are also increasingly using AI for mental health.
- These studies are a great reminder to turn on ChatGPT’s new parental controls, especially as they just announced today that they will now allow for sexting to be done with their tools, following X’s ( Twitter) Grok move into the erotica space.
- Noosa council loses $2million to deep fake scheme. Train your staff and volunteers on these tactics!
- Another Association falls, as the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association(AHHA), the national peak body for public and not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare providers for the last 80 years, enters voluntary administration and will be wound down. Is there no other health association interested in taking on IP assets and their advocacy role?
- Child Care Management software allegedly hacked, exposing personal details of children in the UK, with parents being blackmailed. However, the software company, Family, is saying that they haven’t been breached. Could this be another case of a social engineering tactic on a staff member with admin rights to the system? Again, train your people!
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Tammy Ven Dange is a former charity CEO, Association President, Not for Profit Board Member and IT Executive. Today she helps NFPs with strategic IT decisions, including cybersecurity risk mitigation.