According to Acronis, the year 2018 will be the worst year as far as cyber-attacks are concerned. According to a survey done by Acronis 60% of respondents never heard of ransomware. Ransom attacking will be increased to the rate of every 14 seconds in two years from the rate of 40 seconds this year. In this prediction, attack on individuals, which are more frequent, are not considered. Acronis warns that only a high-quality backup security solution will be able to prevent entities from ransomware.
Ponemon Institute revealed in a report that 69% of organizations do not believe their anti-virus can prevent ransomware activities in their organizations. The new trend has emerged whereby the hacker attack backup files and data. Only a few backup solutions are able to protect from large-scale ransomware attacks. Due to growing ransomware attacks, Acronis improved its back up the solution by integrating it with innovative Ai based technology. It also introduced Acronis Ransomware Protection which can be clubbed with other backup solutions. Acronis advice to keep operating system and software up to date, always have the backup of important data and install anti-virus software.
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