In the last 15 years, vehicle dealership Lindsay Auto Group has expanded business operations dramatically, tripling its number of store locations and increasing headcount five-fold. With business booming and a burgeoning clientele, the company was storing a growing amount of personally identifiable information (PII) and credit card data from customers on site. To mitigate potential vulnerabilities, a decision was taken to stop the local storage of client PII. However, despite having made this move, Lindsay Auto still fell victim to an attack from cyber hackers. Paul Moline, chief information officer at Lindsay Auto Group, recounted the stressful afternoon, “I was standing in the middle of a showroom during an event we were hosting when suddenly, almost every single monitor in the

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