Sixty-nine percent of ransomware victims believed they were well-prepared before the attack hit.
That’s not a statistic about negligent businesses. That’s a statistic about businesses that did something, bought tools, set up backups, maybe ran some training, and assumed they’d covered the bases. They hadn’t.
The gap between feeling protected and actually being protected is where most attacks happen.
Here’s what the aftermath looks like. The average ransomware attack takes a business offline for 24 days. Not hours. Not a weekend. Nearly a month without access to your files, your systems, your customer records, your ability to take orders or send invoices. And nearly one in five businesses that experience a cyberattack never fully recover; they close or go bankrupt.
The ransom itself is almost secondary at that point.
What causes the disconnect? A few things come up consistently. Backups exist but haven’t been tested. Software is outdated on a handful of machines nobody thinks about. Employees know not to click suspicious links, but have no idea what a credential-harvesting attack looks like. And the overall picture, what’s exposed, what’s patched, what’s missing, has never been mapped out.
That last part is where most businesses are flying blind.
A Cyber Liability Scan is designed to fix exactly that. It shows you what an attacker sees when they look at your business: the open doors, the weak points, the exposure you didn’t know was there. Before something goes wrong, not after.
If 69% of victims thought they were ready, the question worth asking is: what makes you confident you’re in the other 31%?
