Companies’ IT infrastructure continues to become more complex, with multicloud deployments becoming the norm. 42% of companies experiencing a ransomware attack, according to a survey of nearly 2,700 IT professionals in 21 countries. The average US company uses 16 cloud services but suffers from the complexity of managing the security of the heterogeneous infrastructure. More than half of companies have suffered a. ransomware attack in the past year, with criminals able to encrypt data in 73% of those attacks. The majority of firms use a hybrid of on-premises and private cloud technology with public cloud infrastructure.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/as-businesses-move-to-multicloud-approach-ransomware-follows