Johnny Carpenter, General Manager of EMEA Commented: “The news this week of yet another cyberattack on MGM Resorts, initiating a system shutdown and disrupting its operations, is yet another in a very long list of attacks that we have witnessed in the past couple of years. Having the right preventive and defensive cybersecurity measures in place for such attacks is a given, and it is what most organisations focus on. But it is also about understanding how the organisation will recover from an incident and how they can limit the extent of an attack."
"Today, being impacted by a cyberattack is almost inevitable. Therefore, companies also need to think about how they can proactively recover, how quickly they can recover, and the cost of recovery to the business. For MGM the priority now will be to stabilise infrastructure, while they find the best copy of their data and restore and continue to drive business operations, bringing systems back online as quickly as possible."
