Ransomware and the threat to Business

The higher the security becomes, the threats become more harmful. This is significantly true in the computer world where there are new vulnerabilities discovered every now and then. One of the most daunting threats in the past few years is Ransomware. It is a growing threat for many businesses as well as computer users.

Each month, you will hear about several ransomware attacks that take place and millions of dollars are made by those online criminals. Usually ransomware attacks are done through poisoned email attachments as well as malicious website ads. If you don’t have a good Internet security antivirus, it would be very difficult to prevent and be immune to these malicious attacks.

One of the best security companies in the world Bitdefender had predicted that such ransomware attacks will soon spread to Operating systems other than Windows and Android. This prediction is largely turning out to be true.

A major security firm Tripwire recently shared that an extremely small number of businesses believe that they can completely recover from a ransomware attack. This is generally very true because the nature of such attacks is difficult to decipher and it can prove to be harmful for the business.

A recent survey was conducted for 200 security professionals who attended the RSA 2016 conference. Through this survey, it was concluded that around 38% businesses are very confident about recovering from a harmful ransomware attack. 49% of people were doubtful over the recovery of the important data and 13% fully admitted that they were not at all confident on the recovery of data. This is certainly a worrying statistic.

These statistics indicate that companies are not using the best practices to avoid a ransomware attack. If they try to tighten their security, it would be difficult for ransomware attackers to attack their systems. Most of the businesses fear and just pay up the extortionists when they can actually recover their data from a safe back. This is one of the things major businesses are lacking and it is high time to implement the right security measures.

Any business would not want their hard earned money go into the hands of criminals who have erased all the company’s data and are seeking ransom to give it back. If you don’t want to be a victim of ransomware attacks happening these days, you can simply take secure, easy-to-store backups frequently. This will ensure that even if you lose the data, you can recover it with ease.