Intermedia, a one-stop shop for cloud IT services, today released its 2016 Crypto-Ransomware Report, which surveyed nearly 300 expert IT consultants[1] for their perspectives on the scope and costs of this trending malware.
The experts’ opinions contradicted conventional wisdom regarding the threat associated with ransomware: business downtime was ranked as a far bigger cost than the ransom itself.
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[1]This study was commissioned by Intermedia and executed by Researchscape International, a market-research consultancy. Researchscape surveyed 275 IT consultants and security experts using an online survey fielded from Jan. 15-30, 2016. Respondents were recruited via third-party panels. Only one response was permitted per respondent, even if they were a member of multiple panels.