Ransomware: To Pay or Not To Pay?
Ransomware has fast become the biggest actor in the global threatscape. Attacks such as Petya and WannaCry made global headlines and came at a massive financial cost to organisations not protected against the threat. Whilst there is plenty of advice on how to avoid becoming a victim of the ransomware scourge, the grapevine is much quieter when it comes to answering the question: should you pay ransomware ransoms?
Who pays a ransom anyway?
The data on how many companies actually pay a ransom is fairly unreliable, simply because admitting that a ransom was paid is also admitting a network was compromised and that both security and data recovery implementations were inadequate.
That said, when a ransom is typically many orders of magnitude less than...
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