"With a single breach, those scenes — and glimpses from more than 149,000 security cameras — were suddenly revealed to hackers, who had used high-level log-in credentials to access and plunder Verkada's vast camera network." - Washington Post . Last week's Verkada "hack" was not a hack. They...
In a recent article for HelpNetSecurity, TetherView's CEO Michael Abboud discusses the recent Cyberattack on a water plant in Oldsmar Florida, as well as the cybersecurity challenges faced by local municipalities throughout the US. Read the full article here Follow Helpnetsecurity on Twitter ...
Key Person Dependency Risk is the threat posed to an organization by a team’s over-reliance on one or a few individuals. Generally, this Key Person or Key People have sole custody over critical institutional knowledge, creativity, reputation or experience that makes them indispensable to the organization’s...
Working from home has been technologically feasible for decades, but it has also come with its fair share of hurdles and roadblocks. Especially in regards to employee visibility, monitoring productivity, and holding the “remote worker” accountable for their work-related responsibilities. Managing remote employees and maintaining...
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to impact industries throughout the world, invest advisory and accounting firms have enabled employees to work remotely. While working from home may be nothing new to some, the realities of COVID have forced organizations to shift to a full-on work...
For the past 15 years, organizations have made a slow move towards enabling employees to work from home. One of the first enablement’s, was the 24/7 accessibility of laptops and cell phones. Workers were able to handle mission critical emails and calls—even on weekends. However,...
According to Gartner’s COVID-19 Resource Center, COVID-19 represents a classic business disruption. Many businesses are experiencing the negative impacts of the virus—forcing them to close shop or institute work from home policies. While business continuity and public cloud technology will not resolve every major problem...
We say the following without irony: prevention is always better than a cure. This saying can be applied for almost all facets of life, when the discussion is about being proactive or having to react to an event. Given the events of the day, we understand...
For most CEOs the possibility of a pandemic was lower on the list than a zombie apocalypse. According to a report on executive awareness of pandemic preparedness by Michael Evangelides, principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP, most top executives and boards of directors are not engaged in...
In a week dominated by news of the global Covid-19 pandemic, companies scrambled to find ways of securely supporting employees working from home. But the challenges are extensive, and in sectors with critical infrastructure like government defense, protecting data is just as important as protecting...