Article in The New Stack by Jason English, for Kasten by Veeam
Ransomware exacts a huge toll on organizations, and the average successful attack costs an enterprise nearly $4.5 million to remediate. Ransomware will likely continue to rise and sap the global economy of billions of dollars in value over the next few years.
Attacks are up, and ransomware payouts continue escalating. Among the most likely victims are public-facing institutions such as universities, hospitals and government offices. This is likely because mission-critical agencies have the most to lose and are less likely to have invested in keeping their countermeasures up to date.
If anything, these high costs are under-reported because most companies don’t want to admit they were hit by ransomware or paid a ransom, lest more attackers learn they are an easy target.
Like getting a stubbed toe, it would be easier for most to limp away like nothing happened. Indeed, one bad toe would be tolerable if the business didn’t have to perform at a professional athlete’s level of agility, and every step could cause immense pain and poor performance.
Since most companies turn to Kubernetes and cloud native applications to gain agility with fast deployment speeds and scalable performance, it’s easy to predict their IT security teams will be stress-testing every cloud native connection for ransomware…
Read the whole article on The New Stack here: https://thenewstack.io/managing-ransomware-threats-in-kubernetes-based-applications/
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