Key Takeaways

• Outdated devices on your network can pose significant security threats
• Screens with old operating systems are often overlooked but vulnerable
• ScreenCloud OS enhances security by maintaining updated systems

Topics

• Technology
• Security
• Digital Transformation

Transcript

So when you think about IT, any device which is on your network is potentially a security threat. This could even be a connected device like a printer. We mostly think of this as laptops and phones, and primarily they are probably the devices most likely to be infiltrated by a phishing attack or hacker. However, a screen running a full computer on its system is equally dangerous. Now, most screens are running operating systems that very rarely get firmware updates. So you might have a version of Android going back seven years on that screen, and we don't really think about it. The manufacturers tend to only upgrade by releasing newer models, but the panels that we are working with often will be on the wall for maybe 10 years. So the screens can be a security backdoor into your network, which then all sorts of things can happen once you're in there. That's one of the reasons why we developed ScreenCloud OS, was to actually strip the operating system back to the very, very basics of what it needed to be performant for the screen. And it's got a good security profile because it doesn't do much. We also keep the operating system up to date. We just released version 3.0, and so we are constantly keeping up with security standards as well as modern web development standards as well. Microsoft Mechanics www.microsoft.com www.microsoft.com