ESG research confirms what we already know from watching the news: ransomware attack frequency is high. This year,
18% of organizations reported experiencing daily attacks, and 24% are being attacked on a weekly basis.
1 These attacks
have a direct negative consequence in the form of downtime. Downtime is expensive, and it affects a whole organization,
not just IT. Consider that on average, one in three business applications is deemed to be mission-critical, according to ESG
research. Fifteen percent of those apps are so important that they can tolerate no downtime at all, and the estimated mean
for tolerable downtime for mission-critical applications is just two hours.2
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