Failure to keep up with complexity leaves businesses at ransomware risk

Increasingly businesses have data stored in hybrid- and multi-cloud environments, but a new report shows that this extra complexity could also be putting data at risk. The report out today from Veritas Technologies found that only 36 percent of respondents say their security has kept pace with their IT complexity, underscoring the need for greater use of data protection solutions that can protect against ransomware across increasingly varied environments. If businesses fall victim to ransomware and aren't able to restore their data from a backup they may look to pay the hackers to return their information. The Veritas research shows… [Continue Reading]