Volume 18, Issue 21 — November 10, 2022

rAVe Europe — Volume 18, Issue 21

11 November 2022 | Volume: 18 | Issue: 21

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Good afternoon, European #AVtweeps. I have just arrived back home from Zoomtopia, and I am getting readjusted to EST. First thing’s first: Check out Paul Konikowski’s piece all about a few lessons he learned from Uber. He says the biggest lesson is learning what NOT to do during a cybersecurity incident. Check out the column for more.

Also, Scott Tiner writes about the importance of diversity during the hiring process, something all of us in AV should be striving for. We want to create an industry with many voices — and Scott says that bringing in new voices “is clearly the best way to improve teams and the services they provide.”

Enjoy all that and check out a new collaboration between ADAM Studio and Sonarworks, Poly’s Android-based single-codec video appliances for Google Meet and more.

— Steph Beckett

COLUMNS

+ Lessons From Uber: How NOT to Respond to a Cybersecurity Incident [Paul Konikowski]

Word quickly got out that the young hacker got into a company Slack, and by then, the adversary had already gained full access to the network, impacting the Amazon Web Services console, VMware vSphere/ESXi virtual machines, and the Google Workspace admin dashboard, and they posted the vulnerability reports publicly.

+ Diversity in Hiring [Scott Tiner]

I recently had a position open on my team, and decided that we were going to make recruiting a diverse talent pool a priority. As many have discussed over the years, IT tends to be a very homogenous area (high percentage of white men). This homogeneity leads to groupthink, customers not feeling like they are welcome or understood and a wide variety of other issues. Bringing in diverse experiences, thoughts and beliefs is clearly the best way to improve teams and the service they provide.

+ Better Is Not Good Enough: The Racial Pay Gap Still Exists [Peter Hansen & Joé Lloyd]

ProAV is facing what is probably the tightest labor market in its history, with company labor needs greatly outstripping worker availability. As detailed in our latest “Macroeconomic Trends Analysis” report, these conditions have created major hiring and retention difficulties that companies are struggling to solve.