What Makes an AI Tool “Safe” for Freelancers?
Freelancers must carefully vet AI tools for privacy and safety, prioritizing data security to protect client information and uphold professional reputation while choosing appropriate options.
QR Codes: Convenience Meets Cyber Risk
As conference season gets underway, QR codes are everywhere—on posters, slides, exhibitor booths, and even name badges. They promise quick access to abstracts, contact details, or resources without fumbling for a URL. But while QR codes are efficient, they’re also a growing vector for security threats. As freelancers and professionals in medical writing and editing,
Your GenAI-Assisted Workflow: Strategic, Secure, and Client-Ready
Whether you’re embracing artificial intelligence (AI) to stay competitive, streamline your workflow, or fight back against outdated assumptions about tech fluency, the key is this: don’t just use AI—use it well. This guide offers a clear, practical approach to integrating generative AI (GenAI) into your work without losing your voice, your standards, or your client’s
Has AI Changed Your Proposal’s Audience?
[This piece originally appeared in our sister blog, Strategic Grantsmanship, on August 21, 2023.] The first rule of writing? “Write to your audience!” For scientific and medical grant proposals, that audience comprises our human scientist and stakeholder peers. Or does it?
Episode 5: Protecting Your Home Office From Your Smart Home
The FBI has described the surge in IoT devices as giving bad actors—the formal term for hackers—“a virtual drive-by of your digital life.” These devices are vulnerable to bad actors and open all devices in the home to hacking. If you work from home, you need to protect your home office from your smart home.
Episode 6: Are Your Consultants & Employees Broadcasting Your Company Secrets From Their Home Offices?
On today’s podcast, we address the question: Are your consultants and employees broadcasting your company secrets from their home offices? Are your contractors, consultants, and employees adequately protecting your sensitive information and intellectual property when they work from home? As we have reported before, smart home devices with speakers—for example, Siri, Alexa, Amazon Echo, Google
Episode 4: The Freelancer’s Guide to Passwords & Encryption
In today’s episode, I review password and encryption options so you can select and apply the best option for securing your projects. This topic is especially relevant now. With the sudden shift to remote work back in the spring, cybercrime has spiked as bad actors have taken full advantage of these security vulnerabilities that have
Episode 2: Change the Locks
Why do people who no longer work with or for you have access to your online accounts? Whether they are project files in the cloud or your website, why do people with whom you no longer collaborate have access? In this episode, we discuss why that’s risky and how to quickly and easily “change the locks” to safeguard your business and your privacy.
How to Protect Sensitive Files: A Guide to Passwords & Encryption
Do you work with sensitive client data? Have you signed an NDA requiring you to secure clients’ information? Here’s how to properly secure your computer and safeguard the intellectual property entrusted to you.
One Nation, Tracked
Since One Nation, Tracked was published in The New York Times last month, The Washington Post has published an investigation into how colleges across the United States are using short-range phone sensors and campus-wide wi-fi networks to track students. Here’s what these investigations found and why it matters.