With cyber attacks being a matter of when rather than if it happens to you, Nick Pericle concludes his 3-part series here with initial response steps to take when your organization suffers an attack and longer-term recovery.
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Terabytes of data were stolen from manufacturing giant Schneider Electric’s sustainability division in a ransomware attack on Jan. 17.
Nearly all respondents in our 4Q23 Baird-MDM Industrial Distribution Survey conveyed some level of concern, but you'll want to see what portion consider it a top threat, and their interesting commentary.
Part 2 of this cyber threats series goes all-in on defense: The steps distributors can take to prep a security framework and an incident response plan.
Before companies can conquer cybersecurity, they need to know what risks exist. The first of this article series outlines the evolving landscape of cyber threats and what distributors should be aware of.
Mike Hockett provides a look where distribution cybersecurity is at year-end 2023, and why data breaches in this industry are more common than you may assume.
The ransomware group that hit Henry Schein's systems twice so far — affecting data for nearly 30,000 people — says it's planning a third attack.
The same bad actor re-encrypted previously stolen sensitive information, apparently just as the distributor had recovered from the initial breach.
A cyberattack on Henry Schein forced the healthcare products distributor to take systems offline and update its financial guidance.
An Ace Hardware official said its systems are restored a little over a week after a cyberattack disrupted shipments and online orders.
'We are currently unable to process orders online,' a banner reads on the hardware retailer's website.
An unauthorized person accessed certain computer systems and potentially accessed or acquired certain files, the company said.
The incident “may have impacted personal information and protected health information belonging to certain individuals," the company said.
Famous Enterprises was hit with a malware attack earlier this year that encrypted data on some of its computer systems.
Ransomware has evolved into a billion-dollar enterprise, affecting two-thirds of small to medium-size businesses in the past 12 months, the Ponemon Institute and Keeper Security reported in a recent study. Yet many in this group most often targeted by cybercriminals do not feel an imperative to make cybersecurity a priority. Blame it on the number of publicized attacks highlighting big companies, municipalities, or just about any organization in the healthcare sector and something even more prevalent: a false sense of security in data backup technology.
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