Security News > 2022 > March > How prepared are organizations to face a ransomware attack on Kubernetes?
Kubernetes is being rapidly deployed into mission-critical environments in organizations around the world, the research showed, with 86% of organizations expecting to deploy the technology in the next two to three years, and one-third already relying on it today.
The research, which gathered the opinions of 1,100 senior IT decision makers globally, found that 48% of organizations that have deployed Kubernetes have already experienced a ransomware attack on their containerized environments, while a staggering 89% of respondents said that ransomware attacks on Kubernetes environments are an issue for their organizations today.
Anthony Cusimano, solutions evangelist at Veritas, said: "Kubernetes is easy for organizations to deploy, and quickly improves affordability, flexibility and scalability-it's no wonder so many are embracing containerization. But because deployment is so simple, organizations can easily surge ahead faster with their Kubernetes implementation than their Kubernetes protection. Suddenly, they've found themselves with two-thirds of their mission-critical Kubernetes environments completely unprotected from data loss. Kubernetes has become the Achilles heel in organizations' ransomware defense strategies."
The research showed that organizations expect to be able to achieve better protection of their Kubernetes environments over time, with 29% of organizations believing that ransomware will not be an issue five years from now.
61% of organizations expect that future investment in their protection infrastructures will leave them "Very well prepared" for ransomware attacks on Kubernetes environments in the next five years.
"However, if a week is a long time in politics, five years is a very long time in data protection, and we expect to see more and more ransomware variants emerge over that time that target Kubernetes and take advantage of this Achilles heel. Too many organizations are missing the simple solution to extend their current data protection platforms to their Kubernetes environments today, leaving them in an unenviably vulnerable position."
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