The world economy, from corporations to small businesses, depends on the supply chain to efficiently move market goods and services. Unfortunately, a growing concern exists about cyberattacks causing massive global supply chain disruption.
Over the last few months, cybercrime has continued to dominate the headlines. In late September, VOIP.ms, a Canada-based VoIP provider, experienced a massive ransom distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which impacted tens of thousands of customers in over 124 countries. High-profile VoIP cyberattacks like this one have thrust VoIP security into the spotlight. If…
The dust has settled, and now we can more clearly examine the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack that occurred on May 7. Colonial Pipeline Co. paid approximately $5 million to Eastern European hacker collective, DarkSide, after a ransomware attack. But if Colonial had the protection of a reliable IT company, it may have been able to thwart the attack before…