Most companies pay the ransom when faced with the decision to pay or close down. They typically make the payment because they don’t have another valid continuing business option. The average company spends 23 times more time, money, and resources recovering from ransomware without the key than if they just paid the ransom from the start. Ransom criminals are getting better at maximizing the damage ransomware causes, says John Mullen, of Mullen Coughlin, who has been involved with thousands of cybersecurity incident responses in his career.”]