Note: The positions of CEOs and other executives interviewed for this story may have changed since the initial reporting of this story.  In February 2023, what began as a normal Friday morning at the Chicago Association of Realtors quickly escalated into a full-fledged cybersecurity nightmare. “We started getting reports of people not being able to log into our server for our membership database,” said Zack Wahlquist, COO at the organization, which represents over 17,000 members from all real estate specialties. “That’s not an uncommon thing, so the team started troubleshooting.” But by 2 p.m., the whole organization was locked out of the network.  Around that time, “one of our IT folks had… Read More