Few people actually think through the potential aftermath of a major cyber-attack: here is what happened a couple of years ago to Saudi Aramco after it fell foul of a hacktivist attack. The group had to 'go dark' and rebuild its entire hard-disk infrastructure after the malware wiped some 35,000 hard drives. That meant that for a two-week period there were "No emails, no phones, nothing,". ' Nothing' meant that a massive company had to side-step across onto typewriters and fax machines in order to manage the day-to-day work of handling contracts, payments, shipments etc. But this was Could your company do that?
Few people actually think through the potential aftermath of a major cyber-attack: here is what happened a couple of years ago to Saudi Aramco after it fell foul of a hacktivist attack. The group had to 'go dark' and rebuild its entire hard-disk infrastructure after the malware wiped some 35,000 hard drives. That meant that for a two-week period there were "No emails, no phones, nothing,". 'Nothing' meant that a massive company had to side-step across onto typewriters and fax machines in order to manage the day-to-day work of handling contracts, payments, shipments etc. with its entire global client base: every item of communication had to go onto paper. Could your company do that?