“The average ransom that companies paid to hackers who attacked their networks climbed by 60% over the past year, reaching $178,000 per attack,” Roee Schreiber, Security Managing Director at Accenture Security said in an interview during Calcalist’s Cyber Week. “As part of our cyber threat intelligence services, we publish a report that reveals to what extent hackers’ daring increases from year to year. Truth is stranger than fiction when it comes to inventing new attack methods,” he said. According to Schreiber, Covid-19 shattered the common perception of Israeli organizations, such as financial or medical institutions, that they could protect their networks by building higher and higher walls around their systems and digital assets, simply because it is impossible to erect a fortress when people are working out of their living rooms. “The hybrid model of working from home and from the office is not going away anytime soon and it will take years before people at large companies return to work fully from the office. The shift to the cloud is one of the factors that will expedite the process and our job is to help organizations conduct the process securely while taking advantage of the shift,” he said.