What’s known about wiper attack on Stryker, a major supplier of lifesaving devices

Company says it doesn't know how long it will take to restore its Microsoft environment.

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I’d note that there’s a lot more to Stryker than medical devices. For lots of hospitals dependent on Stryker for disposable surgical instruments this is a supply chain attack that has an impact like COVID. If Stryker isn’t able to get order processing working quickly (and I believe they are hand evaluating post attack orders at this time), some hospitals will be putting off elective surgery and possibly even less critic surgeries until alternative suppliers can be found (which isn’t always simple).

 

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And that's why you should never "bring your own device" to work. Make the company pay for a work phone or pager if they want to reach you outside of business hours.

There’s different levels of BYOD and the point at which you are installing an MDM and managing your device is the point too far. We use Microsoft’s Outlook and Exchange rules and can only remotely erase the data in the one app. I don’t think that poses a risk to the personal device.