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Security / Privacy Advice?
James-NSC writes "My employer is changing its policy towards employee use of social networks. I've been asked to give a 40-minute presentation to the entire company, with attendance mandatory, on the security and privacy concerns relating to social networking. While I was putting it together, I ended up with some miscellaneous information that pertains to security/privacy in general, for example: the emerging ATM skimming (mainly for our European employees), a reminder that email is not private, malware/drive-by in popular search results, etc. Since these topics don't directly relate to the subject I've been asked to address, I've ended up with a section titled 'While I have you...' I'm going to have the mandatory attention of every employee and I thought it would be a great opportunity to give advice on security/privacy issues across the board. As it's an opportunity that one seldom gets, I certainly want to utilize it fullly. If you had the attention of an entire company with employees in the US, UK, Asia, and Australia, what security / privacy advice would you give?"
Do not do that. Stay on topic.
You are supposed to cover a topic. Cover it. If you have a hobby horse to ride, you should give a good presentation on what you've been asked to present on, and nothing else. If the issues you want to ride come up in Q/A, you can address them very briefly, but stay on topic.
If you ever want to get asked to talk in depth about your hobby horse(s), you will do a good job on the topic you have been told to present on, and not look like some schmuck who can't keep on point in presentations by having the thing wander all over the map.
Also, anything you add at the end will tend to push the information you were intended to communicate out of their heads entirely, and trivialize it for your audience, so you should think twice about that. If your management is there (you said everyone would be), it will do the same for them, and they aren't going to think you've covered what they told you to at all well, and that your whole talk wandered, even if it only wandered at the end.
-- Terry