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Learn how to mitigate the threat of ransomware and recover in minutes with Zerto.
Train employees and staff on
awareness, the risks and
impact of ransomware, and
how to execute your IT
resilience plan.
Protection is not enough when
dealing with ransomware. You
should have a proper IT resilience
plan that will allow you to recover
from an attack.
Never open suspicious links.
Treat email attachments
from unknown senders with
extreme caution. If in doubt
don’t open it.
$11.5
billion
countries were hit with
ransomware in 2017 4
150
increase in number of
ransomware attacks year
over year.5
At this rate,
the number of attacks
could reach 7.8 billion
by 2018.
350%
The cost of ransomware
damages were $6B in
2017. These damages
are predicted to hit
$11.5B by 2019. 3,1
$1,200
per machine
70% of people pay
up to $1,200 per
infected machine.2
$8,851
per hour
The average downtime
cost per hour for a US
business is $8,851 per
infected machine.2
What is ransomware?
Financial Impact
Defense Strategy
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that denies users access to their
data unless a ransom is paid.
Most common variants: Cryptolocker, CrySis, WannaCry, Bad Rabbit, ExPetr.
of small and medium-sized
businesses were hit by
ransomware in 2017 4
42%
THE GROWING THREAT OF
RANSOMWARE
Education 23 %
IT/Telecoms 22 %
Entertainment/Media 21 %
Financial Services 21 %
Construction 19 %
Government/public sector 18 %
Manufacturing 18 %
Transport 17 %
Healthcare 16 %
4
No industry vertical is
immune to being targeted.
The Ransom Downtime
Sources
1
CIO Insite
2
Osterman Report
3
Sonicwall Annual Threat Report
4
Kaspersky Labs
5
Cisco 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report
Who’s Affected?
400 M
2016 2017 2018
1.2 B
2.0 B
2.8 B
3.6 B
4.4 B
5.2 B
6.0 B
6.8 B
7.6 B
NumberofIncidents