87 % of automotive manufacturers unable to sustain outage beyond 24 hours
Education remains world’ s most attacked sector as back-to-school cyber-risks surge
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87 % of automotive manufacturers unable to sustain outage beyond 24 hours
lmost nine in 10 automotive manufacturers would be unable
A to sustain an operational outage lasting more than 24 hours, according to new research highlighting the potential impact of cyberincidents on increasingly connected production environments.
GitProtect Lab’ s The Real Cost of Threats in the Automotive Industry report found 19.5 % of respondents would face an immediate operational crisis within two hours of an outage.
Recovery capabilities could further increase the potential disruption. Only 23 % of organisations said they could completely restore a compromised factory’ s golden image templates and configuration data in under four hours using automated processes.
Almost half – 46.5 % – required between four and 24 hours to restore operations because of heavily manual recovery workflows, while 18 % reported full data restoration taking between two and five days or longer during business continuity testing.
Eight percent of respondents said they had never conducted a full restoration exercise covering an entire manufacturing facility’ s Operational Technology data.
A further 39.5 % said they could withstand between two and 12 hours before downstream distribution networks began to break down, while 28 % could maintain operations for between 12 and 24 hours using physical inventory buffers.
Combined, 87 % of respondents indicated they could not sustain an outage beyond 24 hours.
Education remains world’ s most attacked sector as back-to-school cyber-risks surge
E ducation remains the world’ s most targeted sector for cyberattacks, according to new research from Check Point Research.
PDFs impersonating education institutions and directing victims towards counterfeit Microsoft 365 and OneDrive login pages designed to capture credentials.
Between January and July 2026, education organisations experienced an average of 4,696 cyberattacks per organisation each week, an 8 % increase compared with the same period last year and more than twice the global cross-industry average of 2,150.
The threat intensified in July, when education organisations faced an average of 4,848 weekly attacks, representing a 14 % year-onyear increase.
The findings come as institutions prepare for the new academic year, when large numbers of new accounts, devices and users can increase cybersecurity exposure.
Check Point recommends education institutions strengthen phishing awareness, deploy multi-factor authentication, regularly patch systems and monitor newly registered domains for impersonation attempts.
Asia-Pacific recorded the highest volumes, averaging 7,452 weekly attacks per organisation. Europe experienced 4,759, up 18 %, while Latin America recorded a 42 % increase to 4,299.
Check Point also identified 18,954 newly registered domains containing education-related terms such as school, university, college and student during July. One in 226 was classified as malicious, compared with one in 305 during June.
Researchers uncovered phishing campaigns exploiting student rewards, discounts and enrolment processes, alongside malicious
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