Horrible Day
Are you familiar with the children’s book “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day?” If not, it sounds something like this…
I went to sleep and an email with a virus was opened and now there’s a hacker in Nussbaum’s system and when I got out of bed, I realized 460 drivers will need attention, but our computers will be down and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
New Plot Line
We may have changed the plot line…but we want you to be aware we are preparing ourselves for one Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. A study from the University of Maryland shows 2,200 cyberattacks occur daily. When we consider the number of hacked companies, we realize cybercrimes are no longer a matter of “if” but “when.” IBM stated in 2021, the average cost of a data breach was $4.24 million globally and $9.05 million in the United States. These costs include discovering and responding to the violation, the cost of downtime and lost revenue, and the long-term reputational damage to a business and its brand.
Second-Annual Resilience Day
On Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 a group of employees gathered for our second-annual Resilience Day. The IT department hosts a worst-case scenario breach. This translates to 30 minutes of complete black-out, no phones, no email, no computers. After 30 minutes, some laptops will be wiped clean, and the race to effectively communicate (without our everyday applications) begins.
We can’t give away our plan here for security purposes. But when/if the Horrible Day happens…we hope to handle it better than Alexander.
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