Pink Slips and Ransomware: Employee Layoffs Are the Unrecognized Carnage of Encryption Attacks (ceoworld.biz)

Many times, the leader knows that they could also lose their positions because of the attack.

What Can Leaders Do to Protect Employees

The best defense against the company and employee affects of ransomware is to be proactiveimplement strong controls before a threat actor can strike and have a detailed plan to react quickly in the event an attack occurs anyway.

This makes ransomware feels personal to employees and leaders alikenot only is the business under attack, but so, too, are the people who make it successful.

If the business lacked proper controls such as immutable, redundant backups of corporate data that could be restoredlayoffs and business insolvency are a toofrequent conclusion.

But I also empathize with the many thousands of employees that have lost their livelihoods quite suddenly, as well as the executives who were forced to take those drastic actions to satiate a threat actors profit motive.

Ransomware Through the Employee Experience

When ransomware strikes an enterprise, effects can span from isolated systems/servers to complete shutdown of all global systems (or anything between).