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- Published: Thursday, 12 August 2021 08:54
With cyber attacks increasingly aiming to create business disruption, it is important for organizations to ensure that cyber security and business continuity management teams work together says Terry Storra. Here he outlines the advantages of integration between these two protective disciplines.
The growing range, frequency, and sophistication of cyber attacks has not only underlined the vulnerability of today’s IT networks, but has increased the pressure on business continuity planning.
A glance at the headlines on any given day illustrate the point. For example, the recent attack on IT management software vendor, Kaseya, resulted in a malicious update containing ransomware being sent to around 50 of its managed service provider (MSP) customers.
From there, some 1,500 customers further down the supply chain were also impacted. Some saw their data encrypted with the inevitable disruption that brings, and media reports spoke of ransom payments being made for access to decryption keys that didn’t release all the locked data.
Given the stealth exhibited in designing these attacks, pragmatic organizations and their security teams…
