By Stu Sjouwerman on Fri, Jun 27, 2014
Security Awareness Training and Backup Voted Most Effective Solutions to Combat CryptoLocker
A new survey by IT Security company KnowBe4 shows the growing alarm among IT Pros about the threat of ransomware like the infamous CryptoLocker. The KnowBe4 June 2014 survey over 300 IT Pros compared the levels of concern over ransomware to a similar survey by IT Security company Webroot in January this year. The study showed the rapidly growing apprehension over ransomware, rising to to 73% from 48% of those who are very or extremely concerned about it. Nearly half of the IT professionals surveyed know someone who has experienced a ransomware attack and it worries them more now with 88% expecting ransomware to increase for the remainder of the year compared to 66% at the start of this year.
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