Contractors, construction managers and design professionals were more than twice as likely to be the target of ransomware than other users of cloud-based security technology. These were the startling results of a study of Egnyte customers presented at the recent Associated General Contractors of America IT Conference in Chicago.
Companies with over 1,000 employees were at the highest risk of attack, according to the study of roughly 3,000 survey responses from Egnyte customers. The largest group that responded was architects, engineers and construction companies. The study took into account all Egnyte customers who had a ransomware incident when comparing the overall occurrence of attacks.