Dashboard 8-4-23
Social Media Hits
Congratulations to the @Cablefax Independent Operator of the Year, @GCIAK! Your hard work and dedication to serving more than 200 communities in Alaska are truly an amazing accomplishment. Thank you for leading the nation in connecting the most remote communities in the world!… pic.twitter.com/IKd6DmvsiF
— ACA Connects (@ACAConnects) August 2, 2023
It was great to be joined by the Liberty Global board at a Town Hall in London last week, led by our CEO, Mike Fries. Lutz Schuler, CEO of VMO2 also joined the discussion, which covered a range of topics including sustainability, fixed mobile convergence & the future beyond 5G. pic.twitter.com/GYfrqaEpJB
— Liberty Global (@libertyglobal) August 4, 2023
Congrats @nokia and @SanminaCorp on bringing broadband manufacturing to America and moving us closer to our collective goal of high-speed internet in every home and business. We were proud to join Vice President Harris and others at the announcement in Pleasant Prairie, WI. pic.twitter.com/CpBBMobTkj
— TDS Telecom (@tdstelecom) August 3, 2023
Research
(Source: Comcast Business Cybersecurity Threat Report)
➢ Today, approximately 67% of all breaches start with someone clicking on a seemingly safe link. Adversaries begin 80-95% of all attacks with a phish.
➢ Once inside a network, adversaries made 2.6 million attempts to modify or create new firewall rules to establish external communications for command-and-control operations and data exfiltration.
➢ Comcast Business detected 51,915 DDoS attacks in 2022 with IT and technical service customers making up 25% of attempts.
Up Ahead
August 7-8: C2HRCon, Brooklyn
August 20-23: Fiber Connect 2023; Orlando
Sept. 8: 2023 Cablefax Most Powerful Women Nomination Deadline
Sept 18-19: The WICT Network Leadership Conference; NYC
Sept 19-20: NAMIC 37th Annual Conference; NYC
Quotable
“On the strike, I’m very focused on it because this is our business, this is all we do. And it’s critically important that everybody, the writers, the directors, the actors, the producers, all the below-the-line crews, everyone needs to be fairly compensated and they need to feel valued and feel that they’re fairly compensated in order to do their best work. We have to focus on getting that done. I’m hopeful that it’s going to happen soon. I think all of us in the business are very keen to figure out a solution as quickly as possible. We are in some uncharted waters in terms of the world as it is today and measuring it all. And so I think in good faith, we all got to fight to get this resolved and it needs to be resolved in a way that the creative community feels fairly compensated and fully valued.”
– Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav on the company’s 2Q23 earnings call discussing the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes
