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.