Report by Absolute Security
The Resilient CISO - The Ransomware Reality: Zero Days to Recover
Key Findings
43% of CISOs report Employee Awareness Training is the top-ranked challenge for ransomware mitigation.
58% of cybersecurity leaders would consider paying cybercriminals to end a ransomware attack.
53% of organizations have remote recovery capabilities in place.
46% of cybersecurity leaders rank operational downtime as the most significant impact ransomware is likely to have on their organizations.
57% of CISOs report taking as long as six days to recover from a ransomware attack.
20% of CISOs report taking as long as two weeks to recover from a ransomware attack.
58% of enterprise CISOs agree that a ransomware incident left endpoints inoperable.
83% of CISOs report being confident in their businesses' ability to recover from ransomware.
42% of CISOs report legacy system patching is the second most challenging ransomware mitigation method.
No CISOs report the ability to recover from ransomware within a day.
59% of organizations agree they must take physical possession of an endpoint to remediate and restore the device after an incident.
Over the past 12–18 months, 57% of enterprise CISOs report their enterprises experienced an attack that originated on a remote, mobile, or hybrid device.