Scott McNealy's Top 10 Ways to Get the C-suite to care about Privacy

Scott McNealy-- yup THAT Scott McNealy-- was the keynote speaker at this month's International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) meeting in Washington, DC. In addition to the more serious stuff about how technology fits into the puzzle of how we can collectively work to get control over information assets, he delivered a classic Top 10 about ways we, as privacy professionals, can be sure to get our CEOs' attention &, perhaps, gasp, some resources to be sure we are doing all the things we need to say & do. Upon popular demand by those present in DC, I shall post them today.

I do NOT recommend anyone tries these at home, but they are pretty funny to imagine:

Top 10 Ways to Make Privacy a CEO-Level Concern

10. Show him his daughter's MySpace page
9. Tell him the external auditors lost his personal data (on a laptop)
8. Install a hum generator in his handset
7. Pre-text his phone list-- okay maybe not such a great idea
6. Update his Wikipedia posting
5. Publish his recent Netflix orders (assuming your CEO would be embarrassed)
4. Tell him you lost the corporate archives
3. Re-route his security camera to YouTube
2. Remove sticky notes, with his passwords, from his computer screen
1. Spend $1,000 to do a security check on him

If all else fails, make your insipid privacy blog his homepage for both home & corporate accounts. That ought to get him. Devilish, but effective. He he he...

Just a thought...

Posted at 02:50PM Mar 29, 2007 by Michelle Finneran Dennedy in General  |  Comments[0]