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Ransomwareis the scourge of the contemporary CIOsdatadefenses.

SVP EMEA for Nutanix.

Cyber attack

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In this poll, 89% said they had been hit in the last three years.

We know that one of the best opportunities organizations possess for competitive differentiation is to excel with IT.

But that has meant that digital operations become an even larger and tastier honeypot for attackers.

Thirty years ago when manual clerical processes were still common, an IT outage would be a hassle.

Today, withe-commerce, digital supply chains and marketing, it brings down pretty much everything in its wake.

Questions and answers

What can IT do?

So, education is key and increasingly incident response teams can deliver expertise.

Are we listening?

Thankfully, the pressing need to act seems to be a case of Message received and understood.

And this isnt just a techie answer: C-suite respondents prioritize only data privacy above ransomware.

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