State agencies’ data is increasingly at risk to ransomware attack, in part due to poor backup and recovery practices, according to findings from a new survey.
Among state IT and agency leaders polled, 69% said it would take their agency from 12 hours to over a month to recover the most critical data if it was affected by a ransomware attack.
The study also found that 32 percent of state IT respondents have been victims of a ransomware attack within the last three years, compared to 30 percent of federal IT respondents.
