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July 2025. St. Paul, Minnesota declared a state of emergency.
Not because of a natural disaster. Because of ransomware.
The Interlock group compromised a shared network drive and encrypted systems responsible for billing, emergency coordination, and citizen services. City hall and public offices were offline for more than two weeks. The city had to call in the US National Guard's cyber unit to help recover.
Here's what makes this expensive: the attack exploited legacy systems and delayed patching that everyone knew needed fixing.
This wasn't a sophisticated zero-day. This were attackers walking through doors that should have been closed months ago.
The gap wasn't technical knowledge. It was a security program design.
Legacy systems are a known risk. Delayed patching is a known risk. Shared network drives without proper segmentation are a known risk.
But knowing about risk and building security programs that actually address it are different things. St. Paul had technical staff. They didn't have the security architecture, access governance, and monitoring frameworks to catch what their perimeter didn't stop.
What actually prevents this:
Design security programs that account for legacy infrastructure you can't immediately replace. Build incident detection strategies that work when traditional controls fail. Create monitoring frameworks that catch compromised systems before they encrypt your entire network.
The organizations that recover from breaches like this are the ones with security leaders who think at the program level, not just the technical level. The ones that don't are the ones calling the National Guard two weeks later.
That's exactly what CISSP teaches. If you ever want to reach that level of security leadership (and avoid being the person who has to explain why a known vulnerability didn't get patched), now is a good time to move.
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