What Is an Air Gap?
Air gapping is a security measure that helps organizations protect against ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks have become a significant threat, with a reported average cost of $4.8 million per data breach in 2024. While air gapping cannot completely eliminate these threats, it can mitigate their impact when used alongside other security strategies.
- ▪Air gapping protects organizations from ransomware attacks by isolating critical systems.
- ▪Verizon reported that ransomware attacks are a top threat across 92% of industries this year.
- ▪The global average cost of a data breach in 2024 was USD 4.8 million, marking a 10% increase from the previous year.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (Newest) |
| Canonical URL | https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/air-gap |
| Publication time | Sat, 23 May 2026 03:35:21 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-23T04:07:24.444Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-23T04:07:24.444Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Air gapping helps protect organizations from financially crippling ransomware attacks, where data is held hostage by someone with unauthorized access until an organization agrees to pay. This year, Verizon reported that ransomware attacks remained a top threat across 92% of industries.1 And they're expensive: According to the Cost of a Data Breach Report, the global average cost of a data breach in 2024 was USD 4.8 million, a 10% increase over last year and the highest total ever. Ransomware attacks occur when hackers breach a system with malware, copying sensitive information and restricting physical access to authorized users. Some hackers have demanded double and even triple extortion fees to restore access to sensitive information.
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