Cyberattacks on large businesses, government agencies, and even local utilities appear with some regularity now.

Most recent is the ransomware attack on JBS, the world’s largest beef supplier, which temporarily shut down some of the company’s processing plants and is thought to have been perpetrated by a criminal group operated from Russia. Before that, it was the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, which caused widespread fuel shortages on the East Coast last month. In February, a less-noticed attack hit the water treatment facilities of a small town in the Tampa metro area, setting the lye levels in the municipal water supply to 100 times their normal level (fortunately, workers witnessed the change in real time and were able to reverse it before anyone was harmed.) And this past December, the sweeping SolarWinds hack, also linked to Russia, was detected after breaching the federal departments of treasury, commerce, and homeland security, among others.