Call me an optimist, but I believe the recent ransomware news could also have some benefits.
For so long we knew the threat was real, but convincing the management or exec-level team was sometime very challenging, time consuming and security, like many non functional features, was usually not a priority.
I really hope that the big news could be used as a wake-up call and will help us in our resource allocation in the future.
Because I'm convinced many of the victims of the recent attacks knew about many of the required updates and actions, but couldn't invest any time in this because of 'higher priority' for their limited resources to spend their time on.
The issue so far was both a blind trust sometime and a lack of resources in many cases.
Hopefully the fact that WanaCrypt0r made the news (and not only in the specialized news) will act as a needed wake up call and organizations might try to improve their security.
But maybe that's just me being optimist...