Chloe Messdaghi

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Ask Chloé: Response Time Etiquette

| | communication, communication styles, Communications, efficient communications, electronic communications, exhaustion, Pandemic, Response, response time, social media
Welcome to the Ask Chloé column on Security Boulevard! Each week, Chloé provides answers to readers’ questions to help guide them as they navigate the technology industry. This week, Chloé offers advice to an InfoSec pro struggling with response time anxiety. Dear Chloé, Do you ever get nervous when someone doesn’t text/Slack/email you ... Read More
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Ask Chloé: Vacations Aren’t the Cure for Burnout

| | burnout, burnout in cybersecurity, cybersecurity burnout, Mental Health, workplace culture
Welcome to the Ask Chloé column on Security Boulevard! Each week, Chloé provides answers to readers’ questions to help guide them as they navigate the technology industry. This week, Chloé offers advice to an InfoSec pro who is struggling to cope with burnout, even after a vacation. Dear Chloé, I took a trip ... Read More
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Ask Chloé: Returning to the Office

| | company culture, COVID-19, hybrid working, remote work, The Great Resignation, WFH, Workplace
Welcome to the Ask Chloé column on Security Boulevard! Each week, Chloé provides answers to readers’ questions to help guide them as they navigate the technology industry. This week, Chloé offers advice to an employer whose team is reluctant to return to the office. Dear Chloé, I’ve been trying to hire someone to ... Read More
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Ask Chloé: How to Get Your Talk Accepted

| | call for participation, CFP, Conferences, public speaking, speaking, Speaking Truth
Welcome to the Ask Chloé column on Security Boulevard! Each week, Chloé provides answers to readers’ questions to help guide them as they navigate the technology industry. This week, Chloé offers advice on getting a talk accepted at an InfoSec conference. Dear Chloé, I’ve been trying to get my talk accepted at InfoSec ... Read More
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Ask Chloé: Is the Term ‘AI’ Controversial?

| | AI, AI and machine learning, artifical intelligence, Automation, future technology, machine learning
Welcome to the Ask Chloé column on Security Boulevard! Each week, Chloé provides answers to readers’ questions to help guide them as they navigate the technology industry. This week, Chloé offers advice to an InfoSec marketing professional struggling with a controversial term—AI. Dear Chloé, I was wondering if you could share reasons why ... Read More
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Ask Chloé: WFH Best Practices

| | Pandemic, WFH, WFH security, wfh2020, work life balance, Working from Home
Welcome to the Ask Chloé column on Security Boulevard! Each week, Chloé provides answers to readers’ questions to help guide them as they navigate the technology industry. This week, Chloé offers advice to an InfoSec professional struggling with work-life balance while working from home. Dear Chloé, Do you have any tips on balancing ... Read More
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Ask Chloé: How to Deal With Rejection

| | applying, Call For Papers, call for presentations, CFP, Cybersecurity Jobs, Information Security Jobs, Infosec Jobs, IT Jobs, job candidates, job hunting, jobs, rejection
Welcome to the Ask Chloé column on Security Boulevard! Each week, Chloé provides answers to readers’ questions to help guide them as they navigate the technology industry. This week, Chloé offers advice to an InfoSec professional struggling to handle rejection. Dear Chloé, I’m struggling with job and public speaking rejections. I was wondering ... Read More
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Ask Chloé: Discrimination in Hiring Practices

| | #diversity-and-inclusion, biases, Cyber Security Hiring, cybersecurity hiring, dei, discrimination, Diversity, equity and inclusion, gatekeeping, hiring, Hiring Practices, Hiring Qualified Professionals, Hiring Security Candidates, systemic
Welcome to the Ask Chloé column on Security Boulevard! Each week, Chloé provides answers to readers’ questions to help guide them as they navigate the technology industry. This week, Chloé addresses the role bias and discrimination play in maintaining the cybersecurity skills gap. Dear Chloé, I keep hearing that there’s a cybersecurity skills ... Read More
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Ask Chloé: Preventing Future Burnout

| | burnout, coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, cybersecurity burnout, Employee Awareness, security burnout
Welcome to the Ask Chloé column on Security Boulevard! Each week, Chloé provides answers to readers’ questions to help guide them as they navigate the technology industry. This week, Chloé addresses a reader’s fear that burnout will continue to be an issue long after the pandemic finally recedes. Dear Chloé, Do you think ... Read More
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Ask Chloé: Changing a Toxic Workplace

| | company culture, Human Element, toxic, Workplace, workplace safety
Welcome to the Ask Chloé column on Security Boulevard! Each week, Chloé provides answers to readers’ questions to help guide them as they navigate the technology industry. This week, Chloé helps a manager navigate a toxic workplace with tips on how to curb the behavior and encourage change. Dear Chloé, I’m getting so ... Read More
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