Security "expert" scores own goal
Security "expert" scores own goal
The CEO of a company that earns its coin by selling security software that protects and tracks confidential information made an extraordinary gaffe today when he not only failed to identify a vulnerability within his own system, but also phoned up another company to berate them for infecting his system.
Trouble for Panareef CEO Anthony Turco was that the innocent party on the receiving end of his ire was none other than yours truly, IDM.
Without wanting to blow our own trumpet, we have a fair bit of IT knowledge kicking around the place, and it wasn't long before we identified the source of the attack as a worm infected Windows PC inside Panareef's own private network, which was trying to corrupt our network (and who knows how many others) rather than the other way around, as Turco claimed.
On its website, Panareef's blurb states: "Customers can rest assured in their ability to maintain control and accountability of their most sensitive assets." Whether anyone would want to put their most sensitive assets in the trust of a company that can't keep its own internal system secure is highly debatable.
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