IT Decision Makers Share Fears Regarding Ransomware Attacks

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62% of respondents to Dell’s GDPI survey expressed concerns about current privacy measures, saying they were not sufficient to deal with existing threats from malware and ransomware.

74% of respondents said that their area of attack has grown with the remote operation triggered by the pandemic. 63% said that new technologies such as cloud-native apps, containers and ML also increase data protection risks.

67% of respondents said that they are worried that they could not be able to recover their data after a cyber attack or a ransomware infection.

Dell’s 2021 GDPI survey, which surveyed 1,000 IT decision makers from around the world, also found that 82% of respondents felt that their existing data protection measures won’t be able to meet all future business needs due to a massive rise in the amount of data they manage.

Data storage has increased tenfold since 2016, from 1.45 petabytes in 2016 to 14.6 petabytes in 2021.

For more information, read the original story in Tech Republic.

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