Inside a heavily secured data center. (Photo: MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images / Contributor)
In a webinar sponsored by KnowBe4 earlier this month, 78 percent of attendees surveyed said backups won’t save companies from the aftermath of a ransomware attack.
The webinar, 5 Top IT Security Myths Your CISO Believes Are True, was hosted by Erich Kron, the company’s security awareness advocate, and Roger Grimes, KnowBe4’s data-driven defense evangelist.
Kron and Grimes weighed the merits of each myth and then asked the audience to register their own opinions in a vote. Here’s a summary of each myth that the duo discussed:
Good data backups will save you from a ransomware attack. Audience Vote: Yes 22%. No: 78%.
Roger Grimes, KnowBe4
The audience tended to agree with Grimes, who said backups don’t truly protect organizations from ransomware’s destruction. Most people don’t have good backups and have never performed a critical systems restoration said Grimes.
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