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I can't imagine the stress and working conditions those "in the trenches" IT folks dealt with over those ten days.

Hopefully they all got rewarded with, at minimum, a few days off to relax and recover after everything got sorted out.

As someone in IT, they probably didn't get anything, maybe a friendly smile and a handshake.

now the company has realised it can essentially work without IT, I suspect their reward might be a severance package a few months down the line

The article says that Maersk is taking the opposite approach. Quoting the CEO, Jim Hagemann Snabe:

"And this was a wake-up call to become not just good —we actually have a plan to come in a situation where our ability to manage cyber-security becomes a competitive advantage."

With a $300M loss...

> As someone in IT, they probably didn't get anything, maybe a friendly smile and a handshake.

At least in one country they held a proper thank you party plus thank you gift certificates. That party was for everyone, not just IT.

I am pretty sure That Mærsk also invested a lot of money to prepere better for this in the future.

In the same old fashion, but yes: IMHO the people mindset is the same. Nothing changed really.

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