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Remote work was the easy part IT departments are preparing for the challenge of office returns.
Rather than returning to the office in a mass migration, employees hybrid work routines will vary.
Security investments now will pay dividends in keeping workers safe from cyberattacks, experts say.
It turns out, sending workers home to work may have been the easy part. Coming back scares the heck out of me, Tim Nall says. As the chief information officer of Brown-Forman, the 151-year-old alcohol and beverage brand that makes Jack Daniels, Nall must keep an eye on the productivity and security of 5,000 workers.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top executives at Texas-based software company SolarWinds Corp, Microsoft Corp and cybersecurity firms FireEye Inc and CrowdStrike Holdings Inc defended their conduct in breaches blamed on Russian hackers and sought to shift responsibility elsewhere in testimony to a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday.
One of the worst hacks yet discovered had an impact on all four. SolarWinds and Microsoft programs were used to attack others and the hack struck at about 100 U.S. companies and nine federal agencies.
Lawmakers started the hearing by criticizing Amazon representatives, who they said were invited to testify and whose servers were used to launch the cyberattack, for declining to attend the hearing.
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The private sector should be legally obliged to disclose any major hacks of their systems, says Microsoft’s president and top lawyer Brad Smith.
Speaking at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday regarding the SolarWinds backdoor, through which suspected Russian agents infiltrated the computers of US government departments and Fortune 500 companies, Smith argued it was “time not only to talk about but to find a way to take action to impose in an appropriate manner some kind of notification obligation on entities in the private sector.”
He noted it was “not a typical step” for a company to ask the United States Congress to “place a new law on ourselves and on our customers, but I think it’s the only way we’re going to protect our country and I think it’s the only way we’re going to protect the world.”
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