A study by CyberEdge, a computer security company. Found that only about 45% of the companies that try to pay off Hackers to get their files back, ever see their data again.
While not a huge surprise to me that some criminals turn out to be dishonest. It will be a great disappointment to the company or end user that probably spent hours, if not days trying to figure out how to turn cash into bitcoin in order to pay off the hackers. And then trying to navigate cyberland to then get that payment to said hackers. All for a less than 50/50 chance of ever seeing their files again.
The same study found that close to 90% of the companies and end users that made good backups on a regular basis were able to re-install their operating systems and recover the majority of their data from their backups.
For me it’s a no-brainer to do things right in the first place and make good backups that guarantee a much higher degree of recovery, at much less cost to you or your company in the end.
Backups are nothing more than a insurance payment to the future, when malware, ransomware or a failing hard drive can (and probably will) have you wishing you took the time to set up a good backup policy.
I know this to be true, because I see almost daily the results first hand of what happens when poor or no backups are made. And in the end it is much cheaper to make good backups now, than to pay off hackers or your employees to recreate years worth of lost data.
If you do not have a good backup plan in place (or don’t know if you do). Call RenoGeek today to setup a plan that will give you peace of mind.