In September 2023, MGM Resorts International, the gaming giant, experienced a major ransomware attack that brought its operations to a screeching halt. It was a social engineering attack on the MGM help desk, which the company’s chief executive later confirmed. MGM anticipates around $100 million in revenue loss from this incident.
The relative ease of the MGM attack got the immediate attention of Michael Manrod, CISO at Grand Canyon Education, Inc. Mike realized that any organization, including his own, was vulnerable to such exploitation, even more so when the new power of Generative AI is unleashed.
Learn more about what Mike did to mitigate this risk by downloading the whitepaper here.