OpusV

21/07/2021

During these uncertain times, it is more important than ever to maintain security and ease of use of key systems with the growing use of remote access, find out how we have helped our partners seamlessly continue to run their plants over the last few months.

Current events are as they are, and as we all cope with rearranging our personal and work lives with little to no notice, it has been gratifying to see our key power generation projects continue with minimal interruption. Our partners on multiple farms have been able to interact with key systems acr

10/06/2021

Ransomeware attacks are an increasingly common threat to industries, causing damage not only to the targeted business but the entire supply chain.

Recently, the world's largest meatpacker, JBS, was a target of one of these attacks, affecting numerous facilities and thousands of workers across Australia and North America.

Does your business have adequate protection to help prevent these attacks? And in the event of one, is there a procedure in place to enable business continuity?

Multinational meatpacking company JBS says the ransomware attack came from a criminal organisation likely based in Russia.

26/03/2021

With workspaces now being spread between the home and office, businesses are seeing a disparity in the hardware being used. If you are not aware of the health of the devices on your business network security and business function may be compromised.

Loss of visibility to endpoint devices, wasted staff time due to increased hardware issues and unexpected hardware failure can all be symptoms of lifecycle management and maintenance not being carried out effectively.

At OpusV life cycle management and hardware maintenance is something we consider for all clients, from keeping an asset register of devices and software, monitoring the health of hardware, estimating expected lifespans of devices and managing software and security updates.

With this approach, we are able to proactively react and cover businesses in the event of a failure with as little downtime and hassle as possible while also maintaining a secure and stable environment.

12/03/2021

With the now dubbed "HAFNIUM" attacks around the world targeting the largest business collaboration platform in the market, Microsoft's Exchange Server, the mainstream press has started covering something that actually occurs in every IT persons life on a monthly basis.

Our management systems allowed for the deployment of the required patches, OpusV staff executed these with minimal interruption to client workflows due to implemented high availability infrastructure.

As an added measure we are deploying our senior engineers to perform forensic analysis of these servers to ensure that no exploit activity occurred before the availability of the patch.

We continue our research as it may be that the Hafnium problem is not over quite yet. In a lot of circumstances there are additional mitigation measures, mainly around minimizing exposure to hostile vectors of attack that we implement to ensure that our clients are safe, and can operate knowing their infrastructure partner is actively working to secure them.

Companies and organisations around the world, including more than 7000 in Australia, are scrambling to stop a cybersecurity threat believed to be coming from China that exploits vulnerabilities in a widely used Microsoft software.