• Ransomware, resilience, and the endpoint blind spot: What CIOs must fix now As ransomware locks users out of their devices, recovery speed becomes the true measure of digital resilience. • When ransomware hits, it rarely announces itself with flashing warnings or a clear point of failure. • It arrives quietly-sometimes through a compromised update, sometimes through a well-crafted phishing lure-and then, all at once, your world stops. • In one global organization, 4,000 screens froze simultaneously, silencing the support center, halting manufacturing, and locking out remote workers across continents. • Everything the CIO had invested in like redundant infrastructure, failover systems, and resilient SaaS architectures was functioning perfectly. • But none of it mattered.
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- Ransomware attacks rose 45 % in 2025, with average downtime reaching 24 days and recovery costs exceeding $10 million, according to IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report. The article argues that traditional resilience plans overlook endpoints-laptops, thin clients, and mobile devices-so even when data centers and cloud services remain intact, business stops when users cannot access their devices. CIOs are urged to shift from “replace fast” to “extend longer” strategies, prioritizing rapid endpoint recovery. IGEL’s Dual‑Boot solution lets users boot a clean, cloud‑connected OS on the same device, reducing downtime from weeks to minutes.
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