The latest statistics around ransomware attacks will only confirm your worst fears. In Sophos' The State of Ransomware 2022 report, 66% of the 5,600 IT pros in 31 countries surveyed said they had been hit by ransomware last year. Then there is the bottom-line impact. The Sophos report says the average cost to remediate a ransomware attack was $1.4 million, and the average time it took to recover from an attack was one month.