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04/03/2020
Nearly Half of Employees Don’t Know What to Do When Ransomware Hits
The State of Security
A survey revealed that approximately half of employees didn’t know how to respond in the event their organization suffered a ransomware infection.
In its survey of North American business employees, Kaspersky found that 45% of respondents overall did not know the proper steps they should take in response to a ransomware attack.
Respondents whose employer had suffered a crypto-malware infection weren’t significantly more knowledgeable about what to do. Just 40% said they knew what steps to take. That’s almost the same ratio of employees (37%) who failed to provide Kaspersky with an accurate definition for ransomware.
These findings are a concern given an earlier study conducted by Kaspersky. This research showed that ransomware struck at least 900,000 users every six months and that a successful infection cost victims more than $1 million on average.
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