According to Cyber Security Ventures, a new organization will fall victim to ransomware every 14 seconds in 2019. That terrible rate of infection is expected to accelerate to every 11 seconds by 2021, and there are no signs that the criminals will have reason to slow down. As of April this year security researchers were tracking over 1100 ransomware variants, many being offered in criminal networks through ‘ransomware-as-a-service' schemes.