2021 is set to be the Year of Ransomware. As attacks rapidly spike in frequency, increasingly eye-popping ransom demands are grabbing headlines. Consumers, once relatively shielded from any impact, are experiencing product shortages and difficulty accessing services as the organizations they do business with are knocked offline.

But what happens within an organization post-attack? How are internal processes affected? What’s the impact on employee efficiency and productivity? To find out, Keeper surveyed 2,000 employees across the U.S. whose employers had suffered a ransomware attack in the previous 12 months.

Ransomware attacks are rapidly increasing in frequency and cost. Organizations victimized by ransomware attacks can lose access to their networks and data, incur steep financial losses, and suffer significant reputation damage.

Whether you're preparing to begin calling to employees back on-site next week or next year, here are some tips to ensure a secure return to work.

Poor password hygiene in the workplace was a threat to organizational cybersecurity even before the COVID-19 pandemic. When COVID-19 forced organizations worldwide to rapidly deploy and secure remote workforces, teams began connecting to organizational resources remotely, in environments that their employers did not control, many times using their own devices.

Respondents to the Ponemon Institute’s Cybersecurity in the Remote Work Era: A Global Risk Report, commissioned by Keeper Security in 2020, expressed grave concerns over password security in their organizations.