The risks associated with a supply chain attack have never been higher with new types of attacks, and increased oversight from regulators. Meanwhile, attackers have more resources and tools at their disposal than ever before, creating significant resilience challenges for organisations like yours.

 

Earlier this year Solutions 4IT, a Trusted Partner of the WMCRC were informed by one of their manufacturing clients that a major customer that they deal with had suffered a Ransomware attack.

 

While there was no indication that the client had been compromised the risk factor had increased as both companies shared documents and emails with each other on a regular basis.

The client is security-aware, and they correctly identified the risk and did the right thing by contacting their provider.

 

What was the impact upon the business as a result of the ransomware attack?

The customer who was attacked suffered a significant loss of income and reputation but was able to restore their systems from backup within a few days.

 

How could I prevent my business from falling victim to a similar attack?

When dealing with an attack of this nature it is evident how critical the backup solution is, without an appropriate backup in place the downtime would have been much longer and potentially they would have lost all data that had been encrypted.

 

It is also critical to ensure your organisation takes steps to ensure security of all systems and have a qualified team in place to react to the incident.

 

Risks to and from the supply chain can take many forms as seen in this case study the customer failed to adequately secure their systems which could also have compromised the supplier.

 

How can The Cyber Resilience Centre for the West Midlands help make my business safer?

Led by Policing, we work in partnership with leading industry companies and academia to provide affordable cyber security services so we can grow and strengthen the West Midland’s resilience to online crime and cyber-attacks.

 

Instead of taking the chance of falling victim to a cyber attack like this, sign up for our FREE core membership which provides:

 

🔐 Opportunities to learn more about cyber resilience for your business

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