Half of Orgs Hit with Ransomware in 2017

itman · Jan 30, 2018

Ransomware continues to be a major issue across the globe, with 54% of organizations surveyed hit in the last year and a further 31% expecting to be victims of an attack in the future.

That’s according to the Sophos State of Endpoint Security Today survey, https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/Gated-Assets/white-papers/endpoint-survey-report.pdf?la=en, which shows the extent to which businesses are at risk of repeated ransomware attacks and are vulnerable to exploits. The survey polled more than 2,700 IT decision makers from midsized businesses in 10 countries worldwide, including the US, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, UK, Australia, Japan, India and South Africa.

On average, respondents impacted by ransomware were struck twice—which is not an inexpensive state of affairs. According to the report, the median total cost of a ransomware attack was $133,000. This extends beyond any ransom demanded and includes downtime, manpower, device cost, network cost and lost opportunities. A few (5%) of those surveyed reported $1.3 million to $6.6 million as total cost.
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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/half-of-orgs-hit-with-ransomware/

RockLobster · Jan 31, 2018

This reveals how many businesses and organisations have internet connected devices on the same network as their data.
The advice should be,
Airgap
Airgap
Airgap.
But I guess they are not being told that.

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