Sigma Technology Solutions Blog If 2016 Was the Year of Ransomware, Just Wait for 2017

Nobody would argue that 2016 was the year of ransomware, which tops many lists of the greatest security concerns in the enterprise. According to Kaspersky Lab, a ransomware infection happened every 30 seconds during the third quarter of 2016. The FBI even released a technical guidance document to help organizations protect their networks from ransomware. The FBI reports that the number of ransomware attacks increased from 1,000 per day in 2015 to more than 4,000 per day in 2016.