G&J Pepsi Reflects on Overcoming a Ransomware Attack, Offering Insights from the Other Side

G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers avoided both data losses and a ransom payment when a ransomware attack threatened the company in 2021. It refused to back down—and having avoided lasting harm, the company also resisted complacency.

A long-time user of Microsoft 365 E5, G&J Pepsi had deployed and benefited from Microsoft 365 Defender. It used learnings from the experience to introduce a more proactive approach, deepen its existing processes, increase backup frequency, and more rigorously enforce policies.

Their thoughts on the importance of using the right security solutions? Priceless.

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