This statistic depicts the number of hours U.S. SMEs spent to deal with and contain their most recent ransomware incident. According to the September 2016 survey, 11 percent of respondents spent more than 100 hours to deal with a ransomware infection.
Approximately, how many hours was spent to deal with and contain your most recent ransomware incident?
Characteristic
Percentage of respondents
Less than 5 hours
10%
5 to 10 hours
17%
11 to 25 hours
20%
26 to 50 hours
23%
51 to 100 hours
20%
More than 100 hours
11%
0%5%10%15%20%25%30%
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