In the last 12 months, 80% of companies that suffered cyberattacks in Latin America paid to end the incident and recover their data, it warns.
In Latin America, one in four companies considers that their cybersecurity risk programs are working well, amid the increase in cyberattacks.
Many companies in the region continue to have failures in their systems, such as
outdated or incorrect documentation,
As well as, lack of formal testing and reporting, information in silos, among other elements, said Rick Vanover, senior director of Product Strategy at Veeam .
Therefore, greater attention must be paid to ransomware attacks, as it is one of the
viruses that generates the most presence and alerts both in Mexico and in Latin America.
“Today, it’s not a question of if your organization will be the target of a cyberattack, but when
it will happen,” he added.
Globally only 35% of IT managers
in companies are familiar australia whatsapp number data with internal and external network security, according to
cybersecurity firm CyberRisk Alliance .
In addition, there is a “disconnect” among managers who in the future must plan a strategy
before and after receiving a cyber attack.
In the past 12 months, 80% of companies that suffered cyberattacks in
Latin America paid to end the incident and recover their data, an increase of 4% compared
to 2021, according to Veeam.
The rescue took place despite the fact
that 41% of organizations claim to have a “no
payment” policy in the can i have a euro? event of such incidents.
While 59 percent of companies paid the ransom and were able to recover their data, 21
percent paid the ransom and still did not recover their data seized by
cybercriminals.
Furthermore, only 16 percent cmo email list of organizations avoided paying the ransom because they were able
to recover thanks to the backup.
Veeam said global figures showed that
less than 19% of businesses were able to recover data on their own without paying the ransom.