Ransomware – malware that gets on your customers’ computers, encrypts their data, and extorts a hefty ransom for the decryption keys – is a surging new threat, and what you don’t know about it can hurt you in three ways. One, as a user, you can become a ransomware victim yourself, facing a choice between paying an online criminal’s extortion demands or losing your data forever. Two, as a service provider, you can miss a golden opportunity to win new customers and expand your footprint with your existing customers. Three, you can lose customers and sales to competitors that recognize how serious a problem ransomware is for their customers and position themselves to fight it.
Read more in Ransomware: A Revenue Bonanza for Service Providers.
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Jeffrey Henning
Jeffrey Henning, IPC is a professionally certified researcher and has personally conducted over 1,400 survey research projects. Jeffrey is a member of the Insights Association and the American Association of Public Opinion Researchers. In 2012, he was the inaugural winner of the MRA’s Impact award, which “recognizes an industry professional, team or organization that has demonstrated tremendous vision, leadership, and innovation, within the past year, that has led to advances in the marketing research profession.” In 2022, the Insights Association named him an IPC Laureate. Before founding Researchscape in 2012, Jeffrey co-founded Perseus Development Corporation in 1993, which introduced the first web-survey software, and Vovici in 2006, which pioneered the enterprise-feedback management category. A 35-year veteran of the research industry, he began his career as an industry analyst for an Inc. 500 research firm.
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