This podcast is brought to you by Veriato.com. Today, Michael Owens, the Business Information Security Officer at Equifax, joins Dr. Christine Izuakor to discuss the risk that ransom attacks on a service providers such as Kaseya can have on their downstream client organizations.  

The Kaseya ransomware attack is an eye-opener of sorts. The rising success of ransomware attacks lies in bringing business operations to a grinding halt. In attacks similar to Kaseya, several downstream organizations are forced to stop their operations. The recovery period runs into several days, if not weeks. 

Whatever be the size of your company, today, every organization has to rely on third-party solutions and personnel. As supply-chain exploits keep rising, the question that looms large for security leaders is "how to keep organizations safe in an era of Kaseya and Solarwinds attacks"?