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Cristina de Luca is a journalist with a masters' degree in Marketing. The last 30 years of her career, Cristina dedicated to multi platform content within the IT and communication areas. De Luca was a reporter, editor and content director for News organisations such as the braziilain media Group Globo, IDG (IDC in Brazil), JB Media Group, O Dia and the internet news portal Terra. Cristina has been awarded six times the Comunique-se award in the categories IT and Specialists.
If you are an IT professional and manage your company’s network, you have certainly been in this situation. You are sound asleep and there is a sudden problem with your servers. Either you are woken up by a phone call, a message, or you’ll learn about it when you get to the office. It’s a mess, and you have to patch it. Stress does not come close to describe everything that comes with it – your boss over your shoulders, your colleagues pressed with deadlines, your company and your team’s reputation, the money spent and the amount not collected, and the list goes on. After the fact, you’ll sit down and mull over what could have been done to prevent it. Well, if you haven’t been in such a sandstorm, maybe there’s a way to escape from it.
The average cost of recovering from a ransomware attack has more than doubled in the past 12 months, from an average of $761,000 in 2020 to $1.85 million in 2021, according to global research from Sophos. "The State of Ransomware 2021" report surveyed 5,400 IT decision-makers at mid-sized organizations in 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Central Asia, Middle East, and Africa. While the amount of companies falling victim to an attack has dropped — from 51% of respondents in 2020 to 37% in 2021 — the results reveal worrying growing trends, especially in terms of the impact of a ransomware attack.
