New research from research organization the SANS Institute reveals that frontline IT professionals consider ransomware to be the top overall threat to data availability. Insider threats and denial of service are also considered top threats to sensitive data. While the majority of respondents indicate that they escaped actual compromise of sensitive data in the last year, enough respondents did lose data to provide valuable lessons from these events. Of the respondents, 78 percent report two or more threats occurring in the past 12 month, while 68 percent report the same threat occurring multiple times over that same period. User credentials…
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