CFOs should be aware that
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 9:55 am
To achieve the overall goals of any business, financing corporate assets and protecting them must be balanced, starting with the leaders. Maximizing the value of investments and optimizing key costs will always be the main goals of business formulas. Moving forward in the post-pandemic world, CIOs and the challenges businesses face today (remote work, cyber threats, and cloud investments) should be seen as opportunities for improvement.
Safety Tales: Water Treatment Plant
Vladimir Bezmaly | 01.07.2021
— Good morning, colleagues! Although how good it is! We have just learned of an attack on a water treatment plant. The entire capital is under threat! An unknown hacker gained access to software for remote afghanistan whatsapp data of water purification processes and increased the level of sodium hydroxide, which is used to purify water, to dangerous levels. The actions of the intruder could have had catastrophic consequences if they had not been detected in time by the plant operator. From this day on, we are forced to focus all our efforts on detecting and eliminating the consequences of the attack.
An hour passed.
- Johann, this is Mark. We're at the station. What a mess this place is! The station's network administrators need to be fired! All of them at once.
- What's happened?
— The station's IT staff did everything to ensure that it was attacked. Moreover, ready-made, not custom software for managing critical processes, could have been used for the attack. These idiots used the same password for remote access everywhere and never changed it!!!
Safety Tales: Water Treatment Plant
Vladimir Bezmaly | 01.07.2021
— Good morning, colleagues! Although how good it is! We have just learned of an attack on a water treatment plant. The entire capital is under threat! An unknown hacker gained access to software for remote afghanistan whatsapp data of water purification processes and increased the level of sodium hydroxide, which is used to purify water, to dangerous levels. The actions of the intruder could have had catastrophic consequences if they had not been detected in time by the plant operator. From this day on, we are forced to focus all our efforts on detecting and eliminating the consequences of the attack.
An hour passed.
- Johann, this is Mark. We're at the station. What a mess this place is! The station's network administrators need to be fired! All of them at once.
- What's happened?
— The station's IT staff did everything to ensure that it was attacked. Moreover, ready-made, not custom software for managing critical processes, could have been used for the attack. These idiots used the same password for remote access everywhere and never changed it!!!