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title: A 12-step ransomware response plan for business
description: How to defend against and recover from the world’s most urgent cyberthreat.
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# A 12-step ransomware response plan for business

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## How to defend against and recover from the world’s most urgent cyberthreat.

In a few short years, ransomware has emerged as the malware tool of choice for cybercriminals to enrich themselves by threatening businesses with data loss and downtime. That surge has ballooned the average cost of a data breach to a projected $5 million per incident in 2023. The frequency of attacks is growing at an alarming rate as cybercriminals scale up their malware development and distribution operations, with nine million new malware samples appearing in the wild every month.

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