Don Ulsch, keep the FUD to yourself

Bill Brenner over at SearchSecurity.com has an interesting article up today about how blogging from your corporate laptops is risky business.  He reports that Don Ulsch, technology risk management director at Jefferson Wells International says that people blogging from work and mobile platforms is "very bad".  Ulsch points out that there are 100 million blogs and he claims many of them are used by organized criminal outfits to push gambling and porn.  Ulsch further states that when employees do personal blogging on company machines and through corporate email accounts, "Digital miscreants can then use sophisticated data mining software to scan the blogs for proprietary information that may be sitting in some of those stored messages."  Ulsch said that companies need to put blogging restrictions in place and take this more seriously from a security prospective.

As "proof" Ulsch uses the DuPont case with Gary Min.  The funny thing here is the DuPont case has nothing to do with blogging at all.  A disgruntled employee downloaded and stole trade secrets. What does that have to do with blogging?  Further Ulsch seems to be confusing posting comments on blogs and articles with blogging.  All in all Mr Ulsch, get a grip for Gods sake man!  Your comments seem to show a total ignorance for what blogging really is.  You actually offer no proof what so ever that reflects on blogging at all.  All of your comments deal more with employees using mobile technology. 

Stop spreading FUD about this stuff and talking about things you obviously don't know a lot about.  If it were up to me I would make you start a blog and post an article every day from your company owned laptop.  Maybe if you got more into blogging you would see that the overwhelming majority of blogs have nothing to do with porn and gambling and are not run by some organized cybercrime gangs.  Until then, kindly keep your FUD to yourself.