Earlier this year, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), one of the Netherlands’ leading technical universities, demonstrated the uncomfortable truth that even organisations that tick all the cyber security boxes can fall victim to sophisticated attacks, when attackers gained enterprise-level access to its network and began preparing what forensic investigators later concluded would have been a devastating ransomware attack.
The university’s response was dramatic: it disconnected all 14,000 students and 4,700 staff from the internet for an entire week. That decision, taken within hours of detecting the breach, prevented what could have been months of crippled operations and millions in ransom demands.
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