The internet has enabled businesses to reach broader markets and enhance efficiency through computer-assisted automation. However, with these gains also comes the need to invest in cybersecurity.

Initially, most businesses only invested in cybersecurity to enhance consumer confidence or abide by data privacy standards.

As cybersecurity experts are still trying to unravel the recent Colonial Pipeline and JBS meatpacking company hacks, the White House urges all U.S. organizations to beef up their ransomware prevention measures. These warnings come in the wake of the Department of Homeland Security announcing revised cybersecurity requirements for pipeline companies.