National Security Agency Director Gen. Paul Nakasone said ransomware attacks are likely to remain a daily threat for at least five more years. Do you agree with his statement?

Strongly Agree20%

Agree70%

Neither Agree nor Disagree7%

Disagree1%

Strongly Disagree0%


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CEO, MSSP - High Assurance Cybersecurity SOC in Services (non-Government), 1,001 - 5,000 employees
I "disagree" - ransomware is a high ROI activity for the hackers, it is the monetization of all of the TTPs they curate. Ransomware is what kidnapping, trafficking, extortion, racketeering, loan sharking, tax fraud, was for the mafia. Today, even a corner thug with some skills can execute it on a Mom and Pop deli shop with inadequate security controls to extort a few thousand every so often. 

It is here to stay in form or other for decades.

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Early Stages - the security activities haven't been planned/deployed yet.15%

Middle stage - we've planned security activities, but we've only partially deployed them.60%

Late-middle stage - we've deployed the majority of our security activities and it's keeping up with threats.19%

Mature stage - all security activities are deployed and are proactively detecting threats.4%


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Cyber insurance with ransomware coverage44%

Law enforcement contact(s)44%

Ransomware response plan60%

Ransomware task force/team39%

Bitcoin account for ransomware payments14%

Disaster recovery site33%

Other (comment below)1%


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Community User in Software, 11 - 50 employees

organized a virtual escape room via https://www.puzzlebreak.us/ - even though his team lost it was a fun subtitue for just a "virtual happy hour"
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CTO in Software, 201 - 500 employees
Without a doubt - Technical Debt! It's a ball and chain that creates an ever increasing drag on any organization, stifles innovation, and prevents transformation.
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