Ghost Town Security: What Threats Lurk in Abandoned Offices?
Millions of office buildings and campuses were rapidly abandoned during the pandemic. Now it s a year later. What happened in those office parks and downtown ghost towns? What security dangers lurk there now, waiting to ambush returning businesses?
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Take a bow, ye in IT and infosec, for pulling off the biggest, baddest save-the-world action in the heat of a pandemic. Because of you, businesses keep running even when there isn t anyone in the building to keep the lights on and the machines patched. Most CISOs were focused on getting people remote as quickly as possible using a just-get-it-done approach, says Andrew Turner, executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Blancco s Fredrik Forslund Named New Director of International Data Sanitization Consortium
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Forslund will guide IDSC’s mission to shape and clarify standardized data sanitization best practices for organizations worldwide
AUSTIN, TEXAS – January 28, 2021 – Blancco Technology Group (LON: BLTG), the industry standard in data erasure and mobile device diagnostics, today announced that Fredrik Forslund, vice president of enterprise cloud and data center erasure solutions at Blancco, has been appointed director of the International Data Sanitization Consortium (IDSC). Forslund will lead the Consortium in its mission to educate organizations and standards bodies about the permanent eradication of data, clarifying industry terminology and guidelines to ensure compliance with data security, protection and privacy laws.