OTTAWA—A new poll suggests nearly 70 percent of Canadian organizations facing a ransomware attack last year paid the demands to avoid downtime, reputational damage and other costs. The annual Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Cybersecurity Survey says the high number of groups that pay ransoms comes from the 17 percent that say they were attacked last year. More than one-third (36 percent) of organizations say they have introduced new security measures to meet increased pressure from hackers as more people are working from home, up from 29 percent saying so a year ago. Nearly all of the 510 security professions surveyed (95 percent) say at least some of the new protections will remain permanent while 64 per cent support legislation that would prohibit paying ransom demands. “(Businesses) got to work and implemented new policies, technologies, and security training boot camps for staff—protections they plan to keep in place long after …