diff --git a/cfn-templates/cid-cfn.yml b/cfn-templates/cid-cfn.yml
index 6d94e45b..bb21ecb0 100644
--- a/cfn-templates/cid-cfn.yml
+++ b/cfn-templates/cid-cfn.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
-Description: Deployment of Cloud Intelligence Dashboards v0.2.40
+Description: Deployment of Cloud Intelligence Dashboards v0.2.41
 Metadata:
   AWS::CloudFormation::Interface:
     ParameterGroups:
@@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ Resources:
       Description: An AWS managed layer with a cid-cmd package installed
       Content:
         S3Bucket: !Sub '${LambdaLayerBucketPrefix}-${AWS::Region}'
-        S3Key: 'cid-resource-lambda-layer/cid-0.2.40.zip' #replace version here if needed
+        S3Key: 'cid-resource-lambda-layer/cid-0.2.41.zip' #replace version here if needed
       CompatibleRuntimes:
         - python3.10
 
diff --git a/cid/_version.py b/cid/_version.py
index 063d5248..a861be82 100644
--- a/cid/_version.py
+++ b/cid/_version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 
-__version__ = '0.2.40'
+__version__ = '0.2.41'
diff --git a/cid/helpers/csv2view.py b/cid/helpers/csv2view.py
index 17265195..0621c2d3 100644
--- a/cid/helpers/csv2view.py
+++ b/cid/helpers/csv2view.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ def read_csv(input_file_name):
     sniffer = csv.Sniffer()
     try:
         # AWS Organization returns a CSV with a BOM (byte order mark) character = U+FEFF to specify encoding
-        first_character = open(input_file_name).read(1)
+        first_character = open(input_file_name, errors='ignore').read(1)
         encoding = 'utf-8-sig' if first_character == '\ufeff' else 'utf-8'
 
         with open(input_file_name, encoding=encoding, errors='ignore') as file_: