{"id":260600,"date":"2026-05-25T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/to-pay-or-not-to-pay-58-of-cisos-say-they-would-pay-the-ransom-for-their-data\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T23:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:05:18","slug":"to-pay-or-not-to-pay-58-of-cisos-say-they-would-pay-the-ransom-for-their-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/to-pay-or-not-to-pay-58-of-cisos-say-they-would-pay-the-ransom-for-their-data\/","title":{"rendered":"To pay, or not to pay: 58% of CISOs say they would pay the ransom for their data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4176472\/to-pay-or-not-to-pay-58-of-cisos-say-they-would-pay-the-ransom-for-their-data.html\">To pay, or not to pay: 58% of CISOs say they would pay the ransom for their data<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4176472\/to-pay-or-not-to-pay-58-of-cisos-say-they-would-pay-the-ransom-for-their-data.html\">https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4176472\/to-pay-or-not-to-pay-58-of-cisos-say-they-would-pay-the-ransom-for-their-data.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-25 03:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.csoonline.com\">www.csoonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the survey of 750 CISOs in the US and UK, 58% said their organization would be willing to pay to end a ransomware incident.<\/p>\n<p>This flies in the face of advice from the authorities in both countries. \u201cIt is the UK government\u2019s long-standing position, alongside law enforcement partners, that it does not encourage, endorse nor condone the payment of ransom demands,\u201d said a spokeswoman for the UK National Cyber Security Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI, too, warns not to give in to ransomware demands, noting that paying only encourages the perpetrators to attack others.<\/p>\n<p>Another reasons law enforcers advise enterprises not to pay is that there is no guarantee they will get their data back if they do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4176472\/to-pay-or-not-to-pay-58-of-cisos-say-they-would-pay-the-ransom-for-their-data.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To pay, or not to pay: 58% of CISOs say they would pay the ransom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4176472-0-29060700-1779692546-shutterstock_2110533266-2-100943322-orig.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260602,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260600\/revisions\/260602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}