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Four months: The average time it takes to report a data breach following a ransomware attack
If your private information is stolen in a ransomware attack, then you probably won’t find out about it for several months. On average, it takes US organizations just over four months to report a data breach following a ransomware attack. From 2018 to 2023, the average time to report a ransomware breach increased, rising from 2.1 months in 2018 to…
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On average, government offices suffer a month of downtime after ransomware attacks
While many have been enjoying the twists and turns of Netflix’s Zero Day from the comfort of their sofas, for hundreds of government entities around the world, crippling cyber attacks have been a cold, hard reality. From 2018 to 2024, we tracked 1,133 confirmed ransomware attacks on government entities. On average, these attacks caused nearly a month’s worth of downtime…
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A Timeline of How Long It Takes to Buy a House (on Average)
From market conditions, to location, to your individual finances, the path to buying a home can look wildly different from person to person. (For a little snapshot of what that range can look like, consider a few of the first-time homebuyers I’ve interviewed). According to October 2024 data from ICE Mortgage Technology, the average time to buy a house, from…
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Security incident recovery times are over 7 months on average
Organizations are taking almost a month longer to recover from cybersecurity incidents than they did a year ago, and 25% longer than expected, a Fastly survey has found. This year, businesses report taking an average of 7.3 months to recover from cybersecurity breaches, substantially more than their anticipated timeline of 5.9 months. And recovery times were even worse for companies…
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