In the cybersecurity world, 2021 has been a pretty memorable year – for all the wrong reasons. JBS (a meatpacking company) and Colonial Pipeline made headlines in May of 2021 by being the victims of sophisticated cyberattacks. Both companies were severely impacted by the hack to the point of shutting down their operations. JBS even paid a ransom of $11 million (yes you read that right) to the nefarious hackers.

It only takes a small thumb drive or an email to get a bad link into the system thus giving the hacker a foot in the door.

Chris Cummings, CEO of Petra Technologies

Chris gives a brief outline of what took these companies down and shares 4 lessons every business owner can take away from these cyberattacks.

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This post was first published on petratechit.com.