Company CEO flooded file share with smut, called for help after he deleted it

The column describes three security lapses resulting from user negligence and weak asset controls: (1) a CEO’s explicit photos were publicly accessible on a company file share and restored from cloud archives; (2) an employee stored semi-nude personal images on a work laptop; and (3) a missing school iPad—insufficiently locked—was allegedly taken and used to upload video to the institution’s official YouTube account, exposing potential PII and highlighting inadequate offboarding and device-security practices.