Poll results: Cyber security
Two years ago in an HBSDealer poll question similar to the question below, nearly half (48 percent) of respondents said they were prepared for cyberattacks.
Times have changed. And in the latest HBSDealer poll, the figure of those who describe themselves as prepared for a cyberattack has dropped to 28 percent.
(Click on the image above to vote.)
Cyberattacks was a big topic in early November as Ace Hardware dealt with an event that impacted shipments and online orders. The Oak Brook, Illinois-based co-op said its systems were back in business about a week after the initial report of the breach.
Meanwhile, a recent survey of more than 1,000 global retail IT decision-makers from backup, recovery and storage solutions provider Arcserve, more than half (54%) of respondents disclosed they were targeted by ransomware in the past 12 months;. One-quarter (26%) of these attacks resulted in compromised data, and 25% of respondents confirmed paying ransom as a result of an attack.
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