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what if a single moment of digital
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vulnerability could halt the movement of
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goods across the globe leaving store
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shelves empty and factories
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paralyzed in our hyperconnected world
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supply chains don't just move products
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economies and in one harrowing instant
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that invisible infrastructure was
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brought to its knees this is the story
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of when Blue Yonder a giant in supply
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chain logistics technology was hijacked
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by ransomware triggering a digital
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shockwave imagine the global economy as
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a vast high-speed freight train every
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order every delivery every transaction
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flows through digital rails laid by
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companies like Blue Yonder trusted by
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retail giants like Walmart and
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manufacturers worldwide Blue Yonder
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powers predictive analytics automated
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logistics and realtime inventory
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decisions but in the summer of chaos
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cyber criminals saw an opportunity and
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struck hard the attack was swift and
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paralyzing key systems were encrypted
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communications severed and entire
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logistical workflows were held hostage
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suddenly retailers couldn't forecast
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demand manufacturers couldn't receive
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parts shipping routes vanished into
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digital limbo the freight train had
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jumped the tracks this incident wasn't
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just a wake-up call it was a full-blown
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alarm the ransomware didn't just cost
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downtime or money it shattered trust in
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digital infrastructure
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cyber criminals understood the leverage
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if you choke the arteries of global
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commerce someone will pay to make the
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pain stop and in this case they had
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their hands around the throat of an
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entire industry what makes Blue Yond so
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chilling is its broader
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implications as we automate and digitize
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more core services we create tempting
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targets for cyber criminals
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critical infrastructure from energy to
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food distribution is only as strong as
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security and while the private sector
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races to innovate not all security
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measures evolve at the same pace so how
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do we protect the digital railroads of
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tomorrow first no platform no matter how
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immune security must be proactive not
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regular vulnerability testing robust
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employee training and strict access
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controls are baseline
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defenses backups must be isolated and
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recoverable cyber incident response
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plans must be rehearsed like fire drills
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leaders must also recognize the
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difference between compliance and
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resilience a checkbox on a security
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audit doesn't equate to real world
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readiness threats today aren't
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theoretical they are tactical adaptive
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and relentless in an era where software
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controls shipping routes production
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lines and retail forecasts how can we
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future proof our supply chain technology
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against the next ransomware derailment
