On Friday, May 12, 2017, the world was alarmed to discover that cybercrime has reached a new record, in a widespread ransomware attack dubbed WannaCry that is believed to have caused the biggest attack of its kind ever recorded. The details of the attack are all being reported as we go, as security teams scramble to recover and law enforcement agencies dig further into the evidence.

To say that this is the biggest ransomware attack ever recorded is true, but it’s a very shallow truth. Beneath the success of this attack, and many others of its magnitude, lay the same age-old issues: unmanaged vulnerabilities.