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There's nothing they can do right now, but my issue is that this will be forgotten when next update/purchasing round swings into action.

Take Mærsk who couldn't operate their freight terminals due to a cyber attack and had the entire operation being dependent on a hard drive in a server that happened to be offline. Have they improved network separation? Perhaps. Have they limited their critical infrastructure to only run whitelisted application? I assure you they have not. They've probably just purchased a Crowdstrike license.

Companies continuously fail to view their critical infrastructure as critical and severely underestimate risk.




Mærsk is kind of a bad example, because they made real security mitigations afterwards.[0] I cannot speak to whether they whitelist applications, but neither can you.

[0] https://www.csoonline.com/article/567845/rebuilding-after-no...




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