Lessons Learned: Recovering From Ransomware

Whitepaper

Published April 2021

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As enterprises adopt data-driven business models to increase agility, data has become a more lucrative target for cybercriminals. Even with robust defense mechanisms in place, ransomware attacks continue to increase, successfully encrypting the data of many organizations. In the first half of 2020, there were approximately 2.5 million new ransomware attacks according to the November 2020 McAfee Labs Threat Report. Similarly, SafetyDetectives found that 54% of medium and large organizations in the United States and 57% in the United Kingdom were affected by ransomware attacks in the last year. Ransomware attacks targeting health care and medical research facilities also exploded as cybercriminals sought to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools and universities attempting to provide remote learning opportunities for their students were similarly targeted.