Panda Security Insight

On Thursday we announced to the Spanish press the agreement we have signed with Special Olympics. Through year-round sports training and competition, Special Olympics empowers individuals with intellectual disabilities in more than 180 countries. Special Olympics often is the only place where they have an opportunity to participate in their communities and develop belief in themselves. Many live lives of neglect and isolation, hidden away or socially excluded from full participation in schools or society. Transforming the athlete, Special Olympics sports are a gateway to empowerment, competence, acceptance and joy.

I am convinced that businesses have a responsibility towards the society where we operate in.  Being an active part of society encourages us to support concrete actions that have an impact in the world around us.  Companies like Panda should play more than just an economic role in society; we must also be an active force in promoting the positive development of society. In fact, the capacity to have an impact in society is a very enriching part of our business activity.  Knowing that part of the profits we generate with our daily work go towards worthwhile projects is very exciting.  We are enthusiastic with the activities that Special Olympics undertakes and we are proud to be able to collaborate with them.

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Uncategorized agreement, business, collaboration, Corporate Social Responsibility, Gaizka Ortúzar, Non Profit Organization, Panda, press, society, Special Olympics, sport

Reading Byron Acohido´s blog post  as well as the post on PandaLabs about the incredible rise of financially motivated malware, I thought about the impact this epidemic would have on the financial industry and how it could not happen at a worse time.  Banks of all sizes are dealing with a complex regulatory compliance environment, high profile data breaches and an uncertain economy that has caused many to place IT budgets on the back burner, to say nothing of security budgets.  The financial sector is facing enormous pressure at a time when even the most established firms are now looking for ways to survive.

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Malware, Uncategorized, security antivirus, business, Byron Acohido, Collective Intelligence, cybercrime, detection, economy, IT, Malware, Panda, PandaLabs, security

I read this morning in Michael Krisgram’s blog, the US congressman that has twitted (by the way, we should use as an indicator of business success the acceptance of company names as verbs …) confidential information about his route while travelling through Iraq recently.  Krisgram wonders whether the massive adoption of  Twitter may become a security/confidentiality issue for governments going forward.  In the corporate world, we are asking ourselves if this avalanche of business information communicated by employees which are not official speakers may have consequences through the leakage of sensitive information to the market that may even put companies’ strategies at risk.

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Raising of awareness, Twitter, Uncategorized blog, business, communication, confidenciality, information, Iraq, Michael Krisgram, security, Twitter, US