Employees Not Forthcoming About Ransomware Attacks: Survey
False assumptions about ransomware threats are undermining the benefits of cloud adoption, reported data protection vendor Veritas Technologies. Veritas canvassed 11,500 office workers from the U.S. and eight other countries, finding 47% think data in the cloud is safer from…
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ransomware because they assume their cloud providers are protecting it from malware they might accidentally introduce, said the company. “This is a fundamentally incorrect assumption that will continue to put businesses at risk until it’s thoroughly debunked,” said Veritas. The survey found employees aren't “forthcoming” with their organizations about ransomware incidents, it said. Just 30% of respondents said they would immediately confess mistakes that introduced ransomware into their organizations. Another 35% said they would either do nothing or pretend it hadn't happened, and 24% said they would omit their own guilt as they report the incident.