Taylor Hemphill

Hi Taylor,
This doesn’t surprise how vulnerable a lot of our electronics are. I have tried to take precautionary measures in my home to ensure that I don’t hacked While I don’t know if they are necessarily working, I haven’t been hacked yet so I am going to assume it has been working. Our wifi also has a password. We make it one that isn’t easy to remember. Its a bunch of letters and numbers that aren’t easy to guess. As for my phone, I also have a two factor authentication. I am a big online shopper, so I try to take all the precautions I can take in order to ensure the safety of my debit and credit cards. I don’t know if there will ever been anything that will make me feel absolutely safe about using the internet There will always be hackers out there. I just do what I can to try and stay as safe as possible.

Hi Taylor,

When I read you the part in your post about the password on your home Wi-Fi network, I laughed because my family has the longest and oddest password set for ours that I can’t even remember it half the time. I think it is such a good thing to have passwords set on your Wi-Fi and just about everything. I do not trust anyone and with the technology in today’s day in age, anyone can hack anything. We also have Alexa in just about every room in my house which is also very worrisome because you know someone is on the other end of that listening, but I feel like there is hackers out there everywhere and I try and do my best to keep everyone safe in my home through technology.

Great Post!

Hi Taylor, very interesting post! I agree that two-factor authentication is a really great way to secure your network. Sometimes it can be a nuisance, but ultimately it’s for the better and not only protects you from hacking but allows you to track/monitor if anyone does try to access your accounts in real time. Personally, I have always been super weary of connecting certain devices to my home, such as the Amazon Alexa, precisely because of some of the horror stories I’ve heard about hacking. I’ve always said that while certain technological innovations are pretty helpful and cool, we have to be super careful not to become too dependent on them because they also make us more and more vulnerable with each device/innovation that we use. In my opinion, some things are just better and feel safer when you approach them the old fashioned way.

Hi Taylor,

I have always loved the idea of smart devices. I think any type of tech I buy now should be an IoT device. So I feel like I have sold my soul to the devil when talking about the security flaws with them. I have many Google smart devices, smart security cameras and even a smart alarm clock set up around my home. It just seems necessary now even though I hate talking to Google or Siri and would just rather pull out my phone and do it myself. Either way, I continue to buy new devices and just ignore the security risks.

I don’t have the default password on my WiFi and I always get notified when there are new logins on my Google and other accounts that control my smart devices. But sometimes it does seem like I should be doing more and be more cautious. I don’t really think I will change how I use smart devices and my use of IoT because I think there sometimes have to be drawbacks to life being so simplified by technology.

Taylor, great point! There is no sense in recreating the wheel or making your team work harder for information that is already at your organization’s fingertips. By reaching out to other departments for more data, you are creating a win-win situation for your department by saving your team time and resources spent collecting data AND that data can then be used to improve your approach and targeting efforts.

I previously worked for a non-profit association that educated design and construction professionals about the power of Lean systems thinking and how much time, money and stress can be eliminated for all stakeholders if you simply remove the communication silos and barriers to data sharing to increase transparency. While we advocated for the data-sharing approach for stakeholders, we also applied that same approach to our internal workload and saw several opportunities to increase efficiencies, specifically with our educational event targeting efforts.