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Half of U.S. local government offices haven’t upgraded their ransomware defenses since 2019’s online crime spree, IBM poll says

February 27, 2020

Via: Fortune
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Half of state and local government officials say their office hasn’t done anything to prepare for ransomware over the last year, a new survey says, despite such attacks debilitating cities and counties around the country in 2019.

A Harris-IBM survey of 690 city and county employees interviewed since January found that half of all respondents “have not seen any change in preparedness by their employer” in the last year, and that more than a quarter haven’t received any cybersecurity training whatsoever.

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