Recently, there have been a rise in cyber-attacks which has been becoming the greatest concern of almost all of the influential organizations in the whole world. So you must be wondering what a cyber-attack is. An attempt in gaining control to the computer and tracking the movements of an individual or a group with not having a permission is what a cyber-attack attack means. This could be the newest form of weapon in fighting against another country. Cyber warfare is what this is called and this means that they choose not to waste bullets and money since they could just simply shut down a country in just a few minutes through aiming power grids or national banks or others.
For the sake of having fun, hackers before use this and would choose a single user computers to attack, however, they were starting to form groups and these are powerful ones so that they would be able to attack big shots. Computer system havng a major breach was reported once by an organization and that it was targeted by hackers whom they are believing to have been connected to a foreign country. Email and other crucial documents were being stolen by these hackers.
You might not have known that emails like Gmail was once attacked wherein the accounts of high state officials, journalists, military personnel and so many more were hacked. The only action done was only to be tracing the attack. So it was found that it has come from a province which also said not to point fingers with no proper proof of it.
An email of warning to National Health Security in UK was sent by a certain group of hackers which were also sufficiently kind to choose not attack them but rather stated in the email their servers in the network was simply reachable.
For that matter, keep in mind that the NHS has hundreds of computers put out there. With wings on the different countries around the world, this kind of organization will really have a huge job when it comes to the IT. Think about it, updating all of their systems with just a system update would cost them millions. Proprietary is what most of the software the NHS is using and this means that they will have to develop their own software to be able to do their work.
You would have taken too much time and effort when it comes to solving problems like such. Most of the companies would use the CMMS system in order to deal with maintenance regularly and also the updates happening in the company.
I hope this will help you in managing your company and to aware about what could happen in the internet.