How to prepare for a phishing & Ransomware Attack

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Here are the risks you face if you don’t have a business continuity solution: a. The real cost of ransomware is downtime i. 82% of victims lost access to data for at least 2 days ii. 32% lost access for at least 5 days b. Backup and restore usually takes days i. 52% of wipe-and-restore processes took 2+ days ii. Shared folders are also encrypted, so users who rely on shared files are idled too c. Even if you pay the ransom, you still have downtime to backup and restore i. Carbonite’s restore rate is 10 Mbps ii. A 50 GB file archive will take around 12 hours to restore d. 19% of companies that paid the ransom still didn’t get their files back --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/melvin-williams0/support