The increase in the number of malware blocking access to the data, forcing the company to buy up bitcoins in case that you have to pay off from hacker attacks.
New research shows that companies currently accumulate bitcoins in case you urgently have to pay a ransom to the hackers wrote malicious software that is blocking the necessary company data.
In recent years, ransomware has locked the data of a huge number of individuals and entities. Many of them, including police departments and hospitals, chose to pay to regain access to their data.
A small survey conducted by Citrix, shows that some IT professionals even accumulate some reserve of bitcoin for fast payments to the extortionists, in case of a potential attack. Of the 250 employees in the IT sector and the field of information security, a third declared cryptocurrency savings. A researcher from Cornell University recently wrote in his Twitter that the Treasurer of the University recently created an account on the exchange Coinbase to be ready for attack of ransomware.
Almost half of survey respondents said that their companies are not doing backups, at least daily. Experts in the field of security, recommend this measure as the best protection against ransomware but also as a means of stimulating the industry and batter all hunting committing illegal acts of extortion.
Of course, bitcoin reserves in case of an attack can help the company to restore the business processes faster. Otherwise, in most companies there is no reason to own bitcoins.
Likely to collect the full statistics on the companies ' reserves in case of need the payment of ransoms is not as easy as they most likely are not in a hurry to publicize such data. The very fact willing to make a payment to the attackers in many cases identical with the recognition that system security and data backup is built in the company. In turn, this situation inside the company may attract intruders.
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I'm just completely against paying these types of intruders. I think it will only manifest more.