Case study Kitchen calamity A kitchen unit manufacturer shelves several days’ profits after ransomware attack Relative to many other industries, manufacturers have historically been slower to purchase cyber insurance policies. Because they typically don’t hold large amounts of sensitive data, and as cyber policies have until recently been seen as being focused on protecting against the risk of a data breach, manufacturers often don’t believe that they are overly exposed to cyber risk. However, most modern organizations will utilize their computer systems to perform certain key business functions in one way or another. Should those systems become unavailable as a result of a cyber attack or a system failure, it can have a detrimental impact on the business in question and result

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