--- title: Kill switch fears now rival ransomware as a top security... description: A Proton-commissioned survey of 1,500 European business decision-makers finds that concern about a government-imposed 'kill switch' cutting off access to US... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/kill-switch-fears-now-rival-ransomware-as-a-top-security-risk-for-european-businesses-proton-study--2g17lkran twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Kill switch fears now rival ransomware as a top security risk for European businesses, Proton study finds | daily.dev og:description: A Proton-commissioned survey of 1,500 European business decision-makers finds that concern about a government-imposed 'kill switch' cutting off access to US... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/kill-switch-fears-now-rival-ransomware-as-a-top-security-risk-for-european-businesses-proton-study--2g17lkran og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2G17lKRan.png og:image:alt: Kill switch fears now rival ransomware as a top security risk for European businesses, Proton study finds og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Kill switch fears now rival ransomware as a top security risk for European businesses, Proton study finds **[IT Security Guru](https://daily.dev/sources/itsecurityguru)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Proton-commissioned survey of 1,500 European business decision-makers finds that concern about a government-imposed 'kill switch' cutting off access to US cloud providers (73.9%) has reached near parity with ransomware fears (74.9%). Over half of businesses could survive only one day or less without their cloud services, yet only 44% have a documented and regularly tested continuity plan. Financial exposure is significant — 28.7% of large businesses expect losses exceeding €100,000 per day of downtime. Proton argues that traditional backup vendors don't solve the problem if they're also US-owned, and promotes pre-provisioned failover on European infrastructure as a jurisdictional hedge. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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