Especially since the pandemic, when endpoints became a popular target of attack, threat actors have begun to use automation to attack more organizations faster. And if they get the chance to learn about your environment, they’ll go after your most sensitive, business-critical systems and data, which underlie every technology you have. In what appears to be a never-ending cycle, bad actors are relentlessly exploiting vulnerabilities to steal, delete, or encrypt data, oftentimes to extract a ransom in return for restoration, which may or may not happen. If a serious incident occurs, you may not get your data back. And while data is unavailable, your organization is actively losing revenue and may suffer reputational damage, which could be severe enough to affect the valuation of your company. There’s no limit to the possible impact of a cyberattack. The result of the current risk environment is that new operational resilience guidelines and regulations are being put into place that require organizations to prove they can withstand a cyberattack. Stiff fines are in store for any organization that can’t comply — up to $10 million or more.