This article was originally published in the Honolulu Star Advertiser on August 6, 2019.
It’s hurricane season in Hawaii and while we tend to think of natural disasters like hurricanes, floods and tsunamis when we think about incidents that could impact our business, the unfortunate reality is in today’s world, it’s more likely to be a man-made threat. On any given day, human error, a prolonged power outage, a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack or a ransomware threat are more likely to negatively impact our business than a natural disaster.