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On August 25, 2026, Boston Scientific, a global medical device maker that pulls in roughly $5.4 billion a quarter making pacemakers, stents, and surgical devices, discovered a cyberattack had knocked out access to core systems and applications. Within a day, the company was telling the SEC it could no longer reliably process and ship customer orders. Manufacturing in Ireland slowed. Shipments worldwide backed up. Weeks later, there was still no restoration timeline.
No ransomware group has publicly claimed the attack, and Boston Scientific hasn't said how the attackers got in. But none of that is really the point. The point is simpler and more uncomfortable: a company with nearly unlimited resources, a dedicated security team, and the money to hire outside incident responders the same day still couldn't tell anyone when its order and shipping systems would be back. If that can happen to them, the question every smaller business should be asking isn't“could this happen to us?” It's “how long could we survive if it did?”
Boston Scientific joins a growing list of medical device and healthcare companies, Medtronic, Stryker, and Abbott among them, that have been hit with disruptive cyberattacks in the past year. But the lesson here has nothing to do with being a medical device company specifically. It's about what happens to any business when the systems that let you take orders, ship products, invoice customers, or run production suddenly stop working, and nobody can say for how long.
That's the real cost of a cyberattack for most businesses. It's rarely a single dramatic headline. It's days or weeks of “limited access to certain systems and applications,” customers who can't get their orders, and a slow, expensive crawl back to normal.
• Smaller businesses lose an average of $427 per minute of downtime, and that's before counting lost customers, reputational damage, or regulatory exposure.
• 91% of businesses experience at least one network outage every quarter. Outages aren't rare; they're routine. The question is whether a given outage is a 20-minute blip or a three-week shutdown.
• 43% of small businesses hit by a major disruption never reopen, and another 29% close within two years. Recovery speed isn't a nice-to-have; it's often the difference between staying in business and not.
• Only about 61% of companies have an actual business continuity plan, and a meaningful share of those plans are incomplete or untested.
Put plainly: most businesses are one bad week away from finding out, the hard way, whether they can keep operating without their systems. Boston Scientific had the resources to throw at the problem immediately and still doesn't have a timeline. A business without that depth of resources needs to have already answered the harder questions before an attack, not during one.
If a cyberattack took down your order processing, shipping, invoicing, or production systems tomorrow, could you answer these?
• How would we keep taking and fulfilling orders if our primary systems were offline for a day? A week? Longer?
• Do we have clean, tested backups that are isolated from the rest of the network, so an attacker who gets into one system can't also destroy the way back?
• Who is actually in charge during an incident, and do they know who to call in the first hour, not the first day?
• Have we ever actually tested our recovery plan, or does it just exist as a document nobody has opened since it was written?
If the honest answer to any of these is “I'm not sure,” that's the gap to close now, while there's no pressure and no clock running.
Business continuity isn't a document you write once and file away; it's backups that are actually tested, systems that are monitored for trouble before it becomes a crisis, and a plan that's been walked through so everyone knows their role when it matters. Cynergy Information Technology helps businesses build and test exactly that: resilient backups, proactive monitoring, and an incident response plan that holds up under real pressure, not just on paper. Reach out to Cynergy IT to find out how prepared your business really is.
If we don’t meet our promise, you don’t pay—simple as that. We help small businesses across Texas get fast, reliable IT support with a 99.4% client retention rate. Want to see if we’re a fit?