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The Charles Follis Foundation in conjunction with Black History Month present this important ask of each of you February 3rd, Charles Follis Day. The Theme for Charles Follis Day is the ‘POWER OF ONE.’   The ‘call to action or challenge’ on February 3rd for each individual person is to dedicate 24 hours performing ONLY acts of kindness. No disdain, anger nor negativity toward anyone, doing everything possible in your ‘POWER OF ONE’ for the entire 24-hour Charles Follis Day. This can be done in any manner of ways defined by your ‘POWER OF ONE.’ Incorporating this into the classrooms to deter different forms of bullying whether physical or cyber, would contribute to lowering the suicide rate in children. The benefit in corporate sectors with the importance around DEI; the ‘POWER OF ONE’ would surely enhance such programs. 

The Charles Follis Foundation in conjunction with Black History Month present this important ask of each of you February 3rd Charles Follis Day. The Theme for Charles Follis Day is the ‘POWER OF ONE.’ The ‘call to action or challenge’ on February 3rd for each individual person is to dedicate 24 hours performing ONLY acts of kindness. No disdain, anger nor negativity toward anyone, doing everything possible in your ‘POWER OF ONE’ for the entire 24-hour Charles Follis Day. This can be done in any manner of ways defined by your ‘POWER OF ONE.’ Incorporating this into the classrooms to deter different forms of bullying whether physical or cyber, would contribute to lowering the suicide rate in children. The benefit in corporate sectors with the importance around DEI; the ‘POWER OF ONE’ would surely enhance such programs. Please share with your network and all social media platforms!

T minus 4 days till our best selling book "Securing our Future" Drops!!! Cyber folks, those wanting to get into cyber, and those just curious, THIS FOR YOU!!!! This book is packed with so much knowledge and passion and drive and love. Decades worth of knowledge combined between 16 women. Its great trust me. And my chapter is 5, lol. https://a.co/d/0ppj44t

Black History is cybersecurity history Arlington Hall’s African American unit at the National Security Agency from Liza Mundy’s book “Code Girls” Hidden but Vital Figures As with the most of the American experience at the time the initial African American code breaks went from military to Army Security Agency (ASA) a precursor to the NSA, and then Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), were segregated into their own units and offices. Since the earliest of cyphers, as long as there has been ciphertext there have been black and brown cryptographers. Whether they were special messages of faith, military movements, or pathway to freedom, African Americans have been a part of the history of coded messages, technology, and the practice of protecting the two. Unfortunately like the image above that is featured in this post, the stories and information behind it are lost to time. In the Author’s Note to her book “Code Girls”, Liza Mundy talks about the fact that the image is about all that is left. This had us think, what are we doing now to preserve the history and stories of black hackers and cybersecurity professionals? We decided to do our part and start collecting as much as we could, posting it here, and archiving it on archive.org for the future. Now that the CryptoHarlem site is relaunched look to this area for stories by, from, and about the African American’s contributing to the space of Cybersecurity. After all our research we are even more confident when we say, Black History is cybersecurity history. Assura, Inc. #blackhistorymonth #cybersecurityjourney

CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. A thoughtful passage written by an Englishman about the current situation in HIS homeland, but equally relevant in any other (once) white country. I have been wondering about why whites are racists, and no other race is? There are British Africans, British Chinese, British Asian, British Turks, etc, etc, etc. And then there are just British. You know what I mean, plain ole English people that were born here. You can include the Welsh, the Scottish and the people who live off our shores of Great Britain. You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you. So why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live? You have the Muslim Council of Great Britain. You have Black History Month. You have swimming pools for Asian women. You have Islamic banks for Muslims only. You have year of the dragon day for Chinese people. If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists. If we had White History Month, we'd be racists. If we had any organization for only whites to 'advance' OUR lives, we'd be racists. A white woman could not be in the Miss Black Britain or Miss Asia, but any colour can be in the Miss UK. If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships, you know we'd be racists. There are over 200 openly proclaimed Muslim only schools in England. Yet if there were 'White schools only', that would be racist! In the Bradford riots and Toxteth riots, you believed that you were standing-up for your race and rights. If we stood-up for our race and rights, you would call us racists. You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists. We fly our flag, we are racists. If we celebrate St George's day we are racists. You can fly your flag and it's called diversity. You celebrate your cultures and it's called multiculturalism. You rob us, carjack us, and rape our daughters. But, when a white police officer arrests a black gang member or beats up an Asian drug dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist. I am proud.... but you call me a racist. Why is it that only whites can be racists?? AVG logo This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering. https://lnkd.in/gm8GT9ww Report this message as spam

"Harvard University must face lawsuit over antisemitism on campus, judge rules..." (read full article here: https://lnkd.in/dQhEK3vQ) In the research titled "Hate Contagion" released by Arcane International  on June 25, 2024 , discussion was focused on how social media was used to insite students on campuses, causing them to actively participate in #Antisemetic activities post the 7th October events. Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/dqPFaCZ5 This paper discussed in length the mechanisms used to mobilize students from 'chanting ideas' into becoming 'useful idiots' who are willing to take violent action against Jews on campus. It's now 'pay-back' time for Harvard as the court approved a class action by the students against the university for not taking measures to protect them! To read the Reuters feed: https://lnkd.in/dQhEK3vQ Clearly, the University should have done much more PRIOR to the events to track social media sentiment, much more DURING the events to lower tensions. With some initiative and technology, they could have used technology to grab forensic evidence to use in their own defense. By the way...evidece is there to actually prove that anti Israel campus protesters were prepped for months by outside activists with dubious funding...an issue that definitely needs more investigation... Read about this in the CNN report on the use of "outside-agitator": https://lnkd.in/dkYbrXhd Conclusion: The loss of reputation and potential loss of donations is estimated well into the multi-millions, a cyber protection suit would have cost them only a fraction of that...advanced social intelligence gathering, expert analysts and forensic evidence gathering is becoming a MUST for institutions that are in risk of targeted incitement like campuses. #CyberDefense #CyberSecurity #FightAntisemetisem #CyberCrime #SafeCampuses

Great insights here from Bob G.

Taking it back to the 90's when Cyber Feminism first sparked with Cait Monahan, Hypebae. Let's explore how this ideology offers a lens ecosystem to emancipate fem bodies from the male gaze. Get access to the full report on https://lnkd.in/d4GQv23w

One of my missions in life came through the thought process of growing up as a musician. What knowledge I possesed from experience and skill level over the years, I shared with up and coming musicians as well as the musicians who were/are considered legends. I knew one of the most important character traits for me was to model sharing the knowledge I possessed, at any level. While also remaining humble and teachable. In this journey, that will continue to be my mission. Teach the general public, families associates, small business and non profits, the knowledge that I do have. For the purpose of building a steel wall of protectors, next era of Cybersecurity professionals, individuals who will disciple others in this field. To pioneer major shifts within the industry. My mission is to birth families of diligent and strategic thinkers and guardians of sensitive data, bringing a balance to the scales in the ongoing cyberwarfare.