Downtime cost large enterprises an average of $200 million annually, cutting 9% from yearly profits, according to a study commissioned by Splunk. And while ransomware accounts for a relatively small proportion of that total, enterprises should really be budgeting more for it. For the study, titled “The Hidden Costs of Downtime,” Oxford Economics quizzed executives from Global 2000 companies about the causes and costs of downtime in IT systems. They counted any service degradation or unavailability of critical business systems due to cyberattacks as well as technical and operational failures as…