“Finally starting to see the industry acknowledge that the odds of your company experiencing a ransomware attack is no longer “if” but “when.”
– Patrick Torney, eDot
The following article written by: Risk Management
The new reality is that it is now “When” not “If” you and your company are hit with ransomware attack and become locked out from your data. As a matter of fact, last year, the FBI recorded more than 4,000 attacks a day, a 300% increase over 2015, and cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab reported that ransomware attacks on businesses went from one every two minutes in January 2016 to one every 40 seconds in October of the same year.
This being the case, the time to get prepared is NOW and this recent article in “Risk Management” provides a good initial look into what you can do.
Read more here and GET PREPARED…it is coming sooner than later.