Kaspersky Lab in 2014. (Alexxsun, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Roughly three in four individuals assert that companies should not submit to the demands of ransomware gangs in the event are infected, says one survey report. Yet roughly three in four parents say that school districts should pay up if they are impacted by an attack. So which is it? It could very well be both, as respondentsâ sentiments likely vary depending on what they personally have at stake, how important they view the security of their data, how hypothetical the attack scenario is, and what kind of organization is affected.