Optimism bias is still prevalent when it comes to ransomware attacks. Almost half of SMBs and enterprises (46% each) have experienced a ransomware attack, yet:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>While SMBs and enterprises don\u2019t think they are targets, both are still very concerned about ransomware attacks and the use of AI by threat actors. <\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n Businesses are still taking threats seriously with plans to increase security budgets and expand security teams.<\/strong><\/p>\n To learn more about the findings of the OpenText Cybersecurity 2023 Global Ransomware Survey, read the blog<\/a> or view the infographic:<\/p>\n OpenText Cybersecurity polled 2,016 security, IT professionals, and business leaders from small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with up to 1,000 employees, and enterprises with more than 1,000 employees in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia from September 27 to October 17, 2023. Respondents represented a range of roles from security and technical employees to the C-Suite, and across multiple industries including technology, retail, education, manufacturing, healthcare and more.<\/p>\n OpenText Cybersecurity provides comprehensive security solutions for companies and partners of all sizes. From prevention, detection and response to recovery, investigation and compliance, our unified end-to-end platform helps customers build cyber resilience via a holistic security portfolio. Powered by actionable insights from our real-time and contextual threat intelligence, OpenText Cybersecurity customers benefit from high efficacy products, a compliant experience and simplified security to help manage business risk.<\/p>\n OpenText (NASDAQ,TSX:OTEX)<\/i>, The Information Company\u2122, enables organizations to gain insight through market leading information management solutions, powered by OpenText Cloud Editions. For more information, visit opentext.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2022 Open Text. All Rights Reserved. Trademarks owned by OpenText. One or more patents may cover this product(s).<\/p>\n Certain statements in this press release may contain words considered forward-looking statements or information under applicable securities laws. These statements are based on OpenText\u2019s current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about the operating environment, economies and markets in which the company operates. These statements are subject to important assumptions, risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict, and the actual outcome may be materially different. OpenText\u2019s assumptions, although considered reasonable by the company at the date of this press release, may prove to be inaccurate and consequently its actual results could differ materially from the expectations set out herein. For additional information with respect to risks and other factors which could occur, see OpenText\u2019s Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other securities filings with the SEC and other securities regulators. Unless otherwise required by applicable securities laws, OpenText disclaims any intention or obligations to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.<\/p>\n Source: Open Text Corporation<\/em><\/p>\n Tags: Artificial Intelligence (AI)<\/a>, cyber risk<\/a>, cyber security<\/a>, OpenText<\/a>, small business<\/a>, survey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even with this disconnect, cybersecurity spending and hiring are on the rise: OpenText Cybersecurity 2023 Global Ransomware Survey Waterloo, ON (Nov. 15, 2023) \u2013 OpenText\u2122 has released the results of its annual 2023 OpenText...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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About OpenText Cybersecurity<\/b><\/h4>\n
About OpenText<\/b><\/h4>\n
Forward-Looking Statements<\/b><\/h4>\n