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.
Distant learning at Newhall School District crashed after a cyber attack
Attacks on education have been skyrocketing, and failure to update security awareness and phishing resistance to keep up opens schools to this massive threat.