CyberEdge Group
More organizations are paying the ransom. Why?
Most organizations (71%) have been hit by ransomware in 2021, and most of those (63%) opted for paying the requested ransom, the 2022 Cyberthreat Defense Report (CDR) by the …
63% of organizations paid the ransom last year
A record 71% of organizations were impacted by successful ransomware attacks last year, according to a CyberEdge Group report, up from 55% in 2017. Of those that were …
CyberEdge Group launches new LeadingEdge Group subsidiary to serve non-cybersecurity vendors
CyberEdge Group launched a new subsidiary called LeadingEdge Group. Simultaneously, CyberEdge announced that the company has now transformed into a cybersecurity-only …
IT security teams challenges fueled by record-setting cyberattacks
IT security teams faced unprecedented challenges last year fueled by dramatically expanded work-from-home (WFH) programs, increased bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy …
IT security teams deal with unique challenges fueled by a remote workforce
IT security teams faced unprecedented challenges last year fueled by dramatically expanded work-from-home (WFH) programs, increased BYOD policy adoptions, and rising internal …
Enterprise IT security teams continue to struggle
CyberEdge conducted a web-based survey of 600 enterprise IT security professionals from seven countries and 19 industries in August 2020 in an effort to understand how the …
Are ransom payers fueling ransomware?
A new CyberEdge Group report uncovered two trends that are stimulating record-setting ransomware attacks: More ransom payers are successfully recovering their data. In 2018, …
Organizations investing in security analytics and machine learning to tackle cyberthreats
IT security’s greatest inhibitor to success is contending with too much security data. To address this challenge, 47 percent of IT security professionals acknowledged their …
Not all who pay a ransom successfully recover their compromised data
A new report by the CyberEdge Group found that 55 percent of responding organizations were compromised by ransomware in 2017, down from 61 percent in 2016. How victims …