technology : Nearly 96 percent of Indian organizations affected by ransomware last year approached law enforcement agencies or official government bodies for help in containing the attack, a new report said on Tuesday. Nearly 96 percent of Indian organizations affected by ransomware last year approached law enforcement agencies or official government bodies for help in containing the attack, a new report said on Tuesday. Nearly 59 percent of organizations that approached law enforcement agencies also found the process easy, according to cybersecurity firm Sophos.
Only 7 percent said the process was very difficult. “The high rate of Indian organizations seeking law enforcement assistance for ransomware attacks indicates a positive change in the country’s cybersecurity landscape,” said Sunil Sharma, vice president, Sales, Sophos India and SAARC. “The upcoming DPDP Act, to be implemented in July, will further strengthen these efforts by encouraging transparency and facilitating collaboration between the private and public sectors in combating cybercrime,” he added. Also read – Instagram faces major outage globally, including India Advertisement The report surveyed 5,000 IT decision-makers across 14 countries, including 500 respondents from India. Affected organizations contacted law enforcement or official government bodies for a variety of assistance for ransomware attacks.
71 percent reported that they had received advice on how to deal with ransomware, while 70 percent received help investigating the attack. Strong privacy AI coming soon to devices
About 71 percent of those who had their data encrypted received assistance from law enforcement to recover their data from a ransomware attack. Chester Wisniewski, Director, Field CTO, Sophos, said, “While improving collaboration and working with law enforcement after an attack are all good developments, we need to move beyond treating the symptoms of ransomware to preventing those attacks in the first place.”
