Name: Episode 2: The Rise of Ransomware
Start: 2021-11-04T14:00:00Z
End: 2021-11-04T14:00:59.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4

OpenText Cybersecurity provides comprehensive security solutions for companies and partners of all sizes. From prevention to detection and response, to recovery, investigation and compliance, our unified end-to-end platform helps customers build cyber resilience via a holistic security portfolio. Powered by actionable insights from our real-time contextual threat intelligence, OpenText Cybersecurity customers benefit from high efficacy products, a compliant experience, and simplified security to help manage business risk.

On 14 October 2025, we celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, honouring one of the earliest pioneers of programming, and mark the anniversary of Chuck Yeager’s record-breaking supersonic flight. These milestones remind us that innovation moves fast and it’s only accelerating. On that same day, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10, leaving organisations with a clear choice: modernise or risk falling behind on security, compliance, and insurability.

Upgrading to Windows 11 sounds easy—but in-place OS upgrades can go wrong, and many devices don’t meet the new minimum specs. For MSPs, resellers, distributors, and SMBs, that’s a recipe for downtime, compliance failures, and insurance headaches.

In this webinar, we’ll demystify Windows 10 EOL risks and show you practical steps to protect customer data now. Learn how OpenText Core Endpoint Backup delivers a low-touch, cost-effective solution to secure endpoints—keeping your clients safe, compliant, and ready for the future.

Windows 10 EOL Survival Guide: Backup, Compliance, and Insurance

In this insightful webinar, we will explore the history and evolution of data protection, from handwritten documents and carbon copies to modern-day automated digital backups. Data has always needed protection, whether it was 13 copies of the Magna Carta distributed across the UK in 1215 (4 still exist today!) or the vital business records on your hard drive today.

Despite advancements in technology, many organizations are neglecting backup strategies, assuming that cloud providers will take care of everything. This session will address key questions: Why is backup often overlooked in IT budgets? Why do some believe backups are no longer necessary?

We will highlight the critical importance of backups in today’s digital world, whether your data resides on physical devices or in the cloud. Learn how to choose the right backup solutions based on your business's specific needs, data sensitivity, and recovery requirements. Join us to ensure your data remains safe, and recovery is simple and effective when disaster strikes.

Key Takeaways:

• The historical context of backups and why they are essential.
• The dangers of relying solely on cloud providers for data protection.
• How to choose a tailored backup solution for your organization.
• Simplifying the recovery process to minimize downtime.

The evolution of data backup: Why it still matters

o Únase a nosotros en un seminario web exclusivo en el que exploraremos soluciones esenciales para proteger su entorno de Microsoft 365. Aprenda a proteger datos críticos con soluciones de respaldo confiables de M365 y a defenderse de las amenazas cibernéticas con protección avanzada contra amenazas de correo electrónico. Nuestros expertos compartirán las mejores prácticas, situaciones del mundo real y estrategias proactivas para garantizar que su empresa se mantenga segura y resiliente. ¡No pierda esta oportunidad de mejorar su postura de ciberseguridad y protección de datos: regístrese hoy!

Protección y seguridad: cómo reforzar la seguridad de su correo electrónico y copias de seguridad de M365

We are excited to announce the launch of OpenText™ MDR!

OpenText™ MDR is the answer to enhancing your offerings with threat detection, response, and management. It integrates with the Microsoft Cloud and your customers’ existing security stack, adding our expert analysis, threat hunting, threat intelligence, and human response. OpenText MDR features a unified dashboard with multi-tenant support, powerful workflow automation, and over 500 integrations.

OpenText MDR is cloud-native, scalable, flexible, and reliable, with in-house support. It simplifies your customers’ security operations, improves your security outcomes, and lowers your security costs.

Transform Your Security Operations with OpenText MDR: Integrating Threat Intelligence and Response

Compliance regulations in the UK and EMEA—such as GDPR, NIS2, and local data protection laws—present significant challenges for Value-Added Resellers (VARs), Distributors, and SMBs. Navigating these complex requirements is critical to avoid penalties, safeguard data, and maintain trust with customers.

Join us for a dynamic webinar designed to empower VARs, Distributors, and SMBs with practical solutions for overcoming compliance hurdles. Learn how penetration testing and vulnerability assessments can protect your business from cyber risks and regulatory non-compliance. Discover how effective information archiving strategies can simplify audits, ensure data retention, and meet legal obligations.

What You’ll Learn:

• Key compliance challenges and regulations affecting UK and EMEA VARs, Distributors, and SMBs.
• The role of penetration testing in proactively identifying and addressing security gaps.
• How vulnerability assessments enhance both compliance and cybersecurity resilience.
• Best practices for leveraging information archiving to meet regulatory demands and support business continuity.

Equip your organization with the tools and insights needed to turn compliance challenges into strategic advantages. Don’t miss this opportunity to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape!

Navigating Compliance: Proactive Cybersecurity Solutions for VARs, Distributors and SMB Organizations

When businesses hear that “end of support” is approaching for one of their core business systems, it often evokes fear—and a frantic scramble in the IT department to implement a quick fix. However, modernizing your SQL Server workloads may be easier than you think! Join our upcoming webinar to learn how to seamlessly modernize and migrate your SQL Server workloads.

Future-Proof Your Business: Strategies for Modernizing and Migrating SQL Server

The landscape of cybersecurity has evolved rapidly and 2025 shows signs that this will only increase. This insightful webinar will address essential cybersecurity resolutions for the new year. Learn how to streamline your device replacement process and prepare for the widespread adoption of AI-capable PCs, whilst navigating the end of Windows 10 support in October 2025. Our experts will provide top tips to ensure your business remains secure and resilient in the face of these changes.

Top 10 New Year cybersecurity resolutions

As digital threats continue to evolve, it is more crucial than ever to fortify your personal and organizational cybersecurity practices. This session will delve into the importance of cyber hygiene, the benefits of multi-layer protection, and the innovative use of passkeys to enhance your security posture.

Key Topics:

1. Understanding Cyber Hygiene:
• Definition and significance of cyber hygiene.
• Practical steps for maintaining good cyber hygiene.
• Common pitfalls and how to avoid them.

2. Multi-Layer Protection Strategies:
• The concept of defense in depth.
• How to implement multiple layers of security.
• Case studies demonstrating the effectiveness of multi-layer protection.

3. The Role of Passkeys:
• Introduction to passkeys and how they work.
• Benefits of using passkeys over traditional passwords.
• Best practices for integrating passkeys into your security protocols.

Strengthening Your Digital Defenses:  The Essentials of Cyber Hygiene

This video will show you how easy it is to migrate live running Windows servers from Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud Platform.

Migrate Windows servers from Azure to Google Cloud with Carbonite Migrate

This video will show you how easy it is to migrate live running Windows server from Microsoft Azure Cloud to Exoscale.

Migrating Windows servers, Microsoft Azure to Exoscale with Carbonite Migrate

This video will show you how easy it is to migrate live running Linux or Windows servers from VMware ESX to Proxmox.

Migrating Windows servers from VMware ESX to Proxmox using Carbonite Migrate

How to migrate Linux Servers from VMware ESX to Proxmox using Carbonite Migrate

Security experts are in high demand, but short supply. This episode delves into the simple steps a company can make in lieu of that to mitigate the biggest security vulnerability they face: their employees.

Episode 5: "Cybersecurity Experts are in High Demand and Short Supply"

In this episode, we’ll explore these various types of impacts a ransomware attack can have on small businesses, in addition to hearing about the detrimental impacts of Gregory Industries’ attack.

Episode 4: "Crime is a Tax on the Honesty We're All Paying For"

Ransomware 2021, the exciting three-part series, explores ransomware, how businesses and individuals are attacked, and what they can do to address this surging form of cybercrime.
In Episode 2, our experts chart the rise of ransomware from offers to “help” individuals clean up their computers to multi-billion-dollar worldwide racket. They examine the advances in internet technology that made it possible and the specific security lapses that lead to individual victims being compromised.

Episode 2: The Rise of Ransomware

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Episode 2: The Rise of Ransomware

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