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Article Review Template
Bibliographic Reference
Deal, Jennifer. "Why Millennials Are an Information-Security Threat." Wall Street
Journal. N.p., 20 Apr. 2015. Web. 1 Sept. 2015.
http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2015/04/20/why-milliennials-are-an-information-security-
threat/
Objectives
Inform how millennials are an informational security threat to organizations.
Why sharing information outside of an organization is problematic.
Summary
The article Why Millennials Are an Information-Security Threat, is written by Jennifer
Deal. Jennifer Deal is a senior research scientist for the University of Southern California. In
her article, she focuses on how millennials contact co-workers through social-networking
sites. Millennials are beginning to work together outside of corporate security.
Millennials are communicating using text messaging, instant messaging, Facebook
and Dropbox. This creates a threat for the company because the information leaving the
safe bounds of the corporation’s security is now vulnerable. Deal compares how
communicating about this type of information is similar, yet more threatening than
discussing it over a face to face conversation. The author suggests solutions for this
situation in order to increase productivity and decrease information security threats.
Results
Corporations and organizations need to provide an efficient work environment so that
employees do not have to venture outside of the work place to share company
documents.
Organizations also need to designate rules for how information can be shared
electronically.
Critique
I think that this is a very well written article. The author communicated the
information clearly. All vocabulary was understandable. The author addressed the problems
and stated some solutions. She also was very factual and not opinionated. I found this article
very interesting and have learned a lot of how social media could impact a corporation’s
information security.
Questions
1. Can corporations set up a system that will block sites such as Dropbox or Facebook to
ensure that important information stays within the bounds of the company security?
2. What actions would have to take place if a millennial released important information
on a personal site, and it got into the “wrong hands”?
3. Is communicating electronically outside of corporate security as big of a risk as
employees discussing corporate information in a face-to-face public venue?
-Would employees face similar penalties?
