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Cloud security and compliance technology company OS33 is giving financial advisors free use of its Workplace device check and compliance software to help ensure their computers and networks are secure at a time when many are working remotely and often on unprotected networks. The company announced the move Tuesday in response to FINRA’s March 2020 Cybersecurity Alert pointing to unprecedented upheaval from the COVID-19 pandemic and an increase in cybersecurity threats.
“The number of attacks we have been seeing and hearing about in the last three weeks has expanded down to even the small-advisor level—spoofing attacks related to insurance, texting attacks related to COVID-19, and many other types of attacks—it really got our blood boiling,” said Morley Ivers, president of Workplace by OS33.
Ivers said that his firm...