Manufacturers that get shut down from ransomware don’t just lose data – they also lose production time, fulfillment capability, access to maintenance or operations technology, and other business essentials that can be hard to quantify yet devastating.
Production time lost after IPG Photonics affected with ransomware
Files leaked containing 13 billion records after Microsoft failed to secure a backend server
Elementary security failures are embarrassing, and may lead your company’s customers to take their business elsewhere because if you’re forgetting the basics, how are you handling the more serious stuff?
Town Sports International leaves 600,000 members’ information unprotected for a year
Minor security errors happen, but colossal blunders like this speak to a culture of sloppy security and lack of regard for data privacy across an organization.
Election reporting and other systems hacked at Tyler Technologies
An event like this at a technology provider is not a good look, especially for a contractor that handles both defense sector jobs and election reporting software.
Universal Health Services’s computers and phones systems down, affecting 90,000 employees
Ransomware is a devastating weapon that bad actors are using to shut down essential services – and attacks are escalating.