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A numerical consideration of Times Union Top Workplaces 2023

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2: Rank of Capital Cardiology Associates among the smallest of the Large Companies category (300 or more employees). With 352 staffers, Capital Cardiology is bigger only than the top-rated company, the Center for Internet Security, with 345 employees. The largest is Stewart’s Shops, which has 4,153 staffers.

11.99: Price, in dollars, of a cookie cutter set sold by Death Wish Coffee, with headquarters in Saratoga Springs and production facilities in Round Lake. The two-piece set includes shapes of a coffee mug and the lighting bolt frequently used in Death Wish branding as “the world’s strongest coffee.” Includes recipe for gingerbread cookies.

12: Number of forensic-accounting services offered by Albany-based Teal, Becker & Chiaramonte, CPAs, including fraud-prevention and -detection training and economic-damage analysis.

Top Workplace Albany Community Action Partnership's Energy Services program provides free weatherization improvements to eligible households that can help residents save big on energy bills.

Top Workplace Albany Community Action Partnership’s Energy Services program provides free weatherization improvements to eligible households that can help residents save big on energy bills.

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20: Minimum savings, in percent, of utility costs for residences that receive free weatherization improvements through the Albany Community Action Partnership’s Energy Services program.

Schenectady-based Top Workplace Transfinder provides routing, scheduling and other transportation-management services to more than 2,000 school districts and municipalities across 47 states.  

Schenectady-based Top Workplace Transfinder provides routing, scheduling and other transportation-management services to more than 2,000 school districts and municipalities across 47 states.

 

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47: Number of states with a total of more than 2,000 school districts and municipalities using routing, scheduling and other transportation-management services offered by Transfinder of Schenectady.

Live table games are available 142 hours per week at Schenectady's Rivers Casino & Resort, a Top Workplace for 2023.

Live table games are available 142 hours per week at Schenectady’s Rivers Casino & Resort, a Top Workplace for 2023.

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115: Approximate number of product lines available from Townsend Leather in Johnstown. Each product line has from several to dozens of options for colors and finishes.

142: Hours per week that live table games — representing 11 types including poker varieties, craps, baccarat and roulette — are available at Rivers Casino & Resort in Schenectady. 

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Cisco Shapes the Future of Work with New Solutions Enabling Trusted Workplaces and Safe Return to Office

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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ —

News Summary:  

Cisco Shapes the Future of Work with New Solutions Enabling Trusted Workplaces and Safe Return to Office
Cisco Shapes the Future of Work with New Solutions Enabling Trusted Workplaces and Safe Return to Office
  • New Cisco networking, security, cloud and collaboration solutions help businesses reimagine how they work while keeping employees safe, connected and productive.
  • Solutions address fears over the return to the office, the demand for a safe workplace, and IT tools that connect hybrid workforces in new ways.
  • Builds on Cisco’s continued commitment to drive an inclusive recovery, including addressing the need for a secure and collaborative work environment that is accessible from anywhere.

From the beginning of the pandemic and throughout the recovery journey, Cisco has remained committed to helping people and communities around the world drive an inclusive recovery. As part of the ongoing effort, today, Cisco announced the availability of purpose-built technology and solutions that help companies reimagine how they work – and keep employees safe.

Whether an organization’s goal is to bring people back into the office, or to evolve support for a remote or hybrid workforce, Cisco’s new innovations – and the breadth of Cisco’s networking, security, cloud and collaboration portfolio – support multiple options to create a Trusted Workplace that helps enable a Safe-Return-to-Office and a Secure Remote Workforce: from automating, securing, and scaling network connectivity, to social density and proximity insights for employee health and safety, to securely bringing people together to work however and wherever they want through Webex and collaboration devices that leverage AI, sensors and alerts.

For a tour of these Cisco technologies, watch this video.

Recent research shows:

  • A real fear of returning to the office, with 95% of respondents uncomfortable about returning to the office given the current health crisis1
  • The desire for more advanced tools, with 96% of respondents wanting intelligent technology to improve work environments2
  • More prioritization of the employee experience, with 86% of respondents stating that empowering a distributed workforce with seamless access to applications and high-quality…

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Security camera hack exposes live feeds from hospitals, workplaces and schools

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Hackers aiming to call attention to the dangers of mass surveillance say they were able to peer into hospitals, schools, factories, jails and corporate offices after they broke into the systems of a security-camera startup.

That California startup, Verkada, said Wednesday it is investigating the scope of the breach, first reported by Bloomberg News, and has notified law enforcement and its customers.

Swiss hacker Tillie Kottmann, a member of the group that calls itself APT-69420 Arson Cats, described it in an online chat with The Associated Press as a small collective of “primarily queer hackers, not backed by any nations or capital but instead backed by the desire for fun, being gay and a better world.”

They were able to gain access to a Verkada “super” administrator account using valid credentials found online, Kottmann said. Verkada said in a statement that it has since disabled all internal administrator accounts to prevent any unauthorized access.

But for two days, the hackers said, they were able to peer unhindered into live feeds from potentially tens of thousands of cameras, including many that were watching sensitive locations such as hospitals and schools. Kottmann said that included outdoor and indoor cameras at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 26 first-grade students and six educators were killed in 2012 by a gunman in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

The school district’s superintendent didn’t return calls or emailed requests for comment Wednesday.

One of Verkada’s affected customers, the San Francisco web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare, said the compromised Verkada cameras were watching entrances and main thoroughfares to some of its offices that have been closed for nearly a year due to the pandemic.

“As soon as we were notified of the breach, we proceeded to shut down the cameras in all our office locations to prevent further access,” said John Graham-Cumming, the company’s chief technology officer, in a blog post. “To be clear: this hack affected the…

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