The survey polled more than 200 IT executives in the U.S. and U.K. It found U.S. companies appear more willing to say they would pay a ransom: 23 percent of U.S. executives said they were prepared to pay, compared to 9 percent of the U.K. executives.
“This is a harbinger of the challenging decisions IT executives will face in the security arena,” said Carl Herberger, vice president of security solutions at Radware. “It’s easy to say you won’t pay a ransom until your system is actually locked down and inaccessible.”
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