Utility Function for Assessing the Cost of Recovering from Ransomware Attacks

Nowadays ransomware attacks have become one of the main problems organizations face. The threat of ransomware attacks, with their capacity to paralyze entire organizations, creates the need to develop a ransomware recovery utility function to help further prepare for the impact of such attacks and enhance the organization’s knowledge and perception of risk. This work proposes a ransomware recovery utility function that aims to estimate the impact of a ransomware attack measured in manpower hours till recovery and taking into account different devices and different scenarios.