Julie Noizeux, Channel Manager South Africa for Veritas Technologies, quotes some scary statistics. Recent surveys have shown that 30% of organisations in South Africa have been hit by ransomware attacks and 71% of workfrom- home employees have inadvertently shared confidential information while using collaborative tools.

Due to their backup practices, South African enterprises are among the least capable of recovering quickly from a ransomware attack. Backup and recovery systems are, unfortunately, not robust enough; therefore, they often have no choice but to pay after an attack.