Name: How I learned to halt ransomware and stop worrying
Start: 2023-01-17T22:00:00Z
End: 2023-01-17T22:00:46.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.5

This channel features presentations by leading experts in the field of information security. From application, computer, network and Internet security to access control management, data privacy and other hot topics, you will walk away with practical advice for your strategic and tactical information security initiatives.

Organizations excel at documenting incidents but fail catastrophically at remembering them. Between audits, hard-won lessons evaporate, cultural knowledge resets to zero and enterprises find themselves vulnerable to the same predictable risks that should have been eliminated months ago.

This session reframes security culture as a living control system where organizational memory becomes your strongest defense. Discover how to transform retrospectives into measurable feedback loops, quantify learning as risk reduction and embed institutional knowledge into governance frameworks that create compounding resilience rather than cyclical vulnerability.

Join Oksana Denesiuk, Senior Product Manager at Kaiser Permanente and ISSA Advisory Board Member, to explore proven methodologies for building unbreakable organizational memory.

Key Takeaways: 
- Track how lessons learned translate into behavioral change and improved security posture. 
- Build lasting organizational memory through structured post-incident processes that strengthen defenses over time.
- Measure how well your organization learns from incidents and translate that into reduced security risks.
- Transform retrospectives into measurable feedback loops that prevent incident recurrence. 
- Embed organizational knowledge into leadership and accountability models for sustained cultural transformation.

Transform Security Culture into Measurable Organizational Memory

Since technology cannot keep us completely protected, organizations must embrace a culture of cybersecurity to build true resilience. This cultural transformation is essential to safeguard against risks and ensure readiness to respond effectively when incidents occur.

This session explores how leading organizations are embedding cybersecurity into their values, attitudes, and practices. By fostering a culture of resilience, businesses can strengthen their ability to anticipate, adapt to, and recover from cyber threats. Learn why every manager has a pivotal role in shaping this culture and how to implement strategies that drive lasting change.

Join Dr. Keri Pearlson, Principal Research Scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management, to explore actionable steps for building a culture of cybersecurity that protects your organization and empowers your workforce.

Takeaways:
- Understand cyber resilience thinking and how it differs from traditional protection strategies.
- Discover key mechanisms for fostering an effective cybersecurity culture.
- Gain actionable insights for managers to enhance resilience at work and home.
- Learn from real-world examples of organizations successfully embedding cybersecurity into their culture.

Building Cyber Resilience Through Culture in 2026

Mergers and acquisitions create exponential cyber risk exposure, yet many organizations lack quantified risk frameworks to guide critical business decisions. As cyber threats evolve and regulatory scrutiny intensifies, executives need concrete data to balance growth opportunities against security investments.

Traditional risk assessments fail during rapid organizational change. This session reveals proven methodologies for translating cyber vulnerabilities into financial impact metrics that drive boardroom decisions. Learn to build communication frameworks that align security investments with business objectives while maintaining stakeholder confidence throughout complex organizational transitions.

Join Vincent Amanyi, Founder of Boleaum Inc, to explore actionable strategies for enterprise cyber risk quantification and communication.

Key Takeaways: 
- Develop risk appetite frameworks that identify, prioritize, and absorb organizational risks with minimal business disruption. 
- Master cyber risk quantification techniques that assign tangible dollar values to security threats across all business levels.
- Build structured communication models to effectively convey cyber risk criticality to diverse stakeholder groups. 
- Implement scalable cybersecurity benchmarking practices for growing organizations. 
- Create boardroom-ready risk reports that support strategic decision-making during M&A activities.

Quantify Cyber Risk Impact for Strategic M&A Growth

Breaches have become a daily reality. Dark web activities and emerging threat vectors outpace traditional defenses, creating blind spots that adversaries readily exploit. Without early warning systems, businesses remain vulnerable to sophisticated attacks that could have been prevented.

Effective Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) transforms raw intelligence into actionable insights that enable proactive defense strategies. This session demonstrates how to operationalize intelligence, map adversary tactics to business risks, and implement early warning systems that prevent breaches before they occur. Learn to distinguish signal from noise and convert threat intelligence into measurable risk reduction metrics that resonate with executive leadership.

Leverage Cyber Threat Intelligence for Proactive Risk Mitigation

Open-source software drives enterprise innovation, but unmanaged vulnerabilities create operational risks and regulatory exposure. As cyber threats evolve and compliance frameworks tighten, executives face mounting pressure to balance innovation speed with robust security governance.

Traditional approaches to OSS security often create friction between development teams and security requirements, leading to shadow IT practices and increased exposure. This session presents proven frameworks for integrating security into OSS workflows while maintaining developer productivity and meeting emerging regulatory demands like the EU Cyber Resilience Act.

Join Yesenia Yser, Security Engineer and Open-Source Advocate, to explore enterprise-grade strategies for OSS risk management.



Key Takeaways: 

Implement governance frameworks that protect OSS dependencies without slowing development
Create shared accountability between security, procurement, and engineering teams
Apply SLSA, SBOM, and OpenSSF standards to build enterprise-wide security trust
Balance regulatory requirements with collaborative open source community practices 
Turn OSS security management into a strategic business differentiator

Securing Open-Source Dependencies at Enterprise Scale

The current data security and privacy protection landscape is awash with tools, acronyms, buzzwords that promise to make data breaches and privacy incidents a thing of the past. Yet hotel chains, healthcare providers, banks, department stores and even governments constantly fall victim to data breaches, ransomware or nation-state attacks. 

The plain truth is that tools are only as good as the people that use them and the processes that go with it. Two thousand years ago, the Roman empire had better military tools than the nations they conquered. Yet through time, the Romans fell to the barbarians and are merely remembered through their ruins. Likewise, companies with the latest and most buzzworthy technology implemented still manage to fall victim to attacks. 

In this presentation, industry thought leader Ralph Villanueva will tap into over 15 years’ experience of data security and privacy protection to show why ultimately, the people behind the tools and the processes they use matter more in securing your organization’s data. 

Key Takeaways:
 - How to best deploy tools in the most cost-effective way to optimize benefits.
 - How to best deploy tools to mitigate data security risks from internal and external threats. 
 - The importance of a balanced and holistic approach to data security that equally considers people, processes and technology.

Tools are Nothing: Why People and Process Matter More in Data Security and Privacy

Data security has entered a new era, one defined by AI-powered threats, expanding cloud ecosystems, and evolving global privacy regulations. 

This session presented by TD Bank's Pankul Chitrav explores the critical shifts reshaping how organisations must protect sensitive information in a boundaryless digital world. We will break down the top risks, the essential capabilities of modern security architectures, and the must-have tools for protecting data across endpoints, cloud platforms, and AI workflows. From zero trust to automated posture management and advanced data discovery, you’ll learn what’s required to stay ahead of adversaries and maintain compliance. Whether you’re modernising your security program or building one from the ground up, this talk equips you with the insights needed to create a future-ready data protection strategy for 2025 and beyond.

Future-Ready Data Protection: Securing Modern Data Ecosystems in an AI-Driven World

Cyberattacks are continuing at pace and we're regularly hearing of new data breaches. But who is responsible for ensuring the security of personal data? 

Traditional data protection approaches are failing against modern attack vectors. Organizations need future-ready strategies that go beyond compliance checkboxes to create resilient security frameworks. In this session, we'll explore the current risks to personal data & privacy and delve into the range of models that can be used to protect your organizations critical assets.

This webinar will take you through examples of recent data breaches, identifying the challenges being experienced, learning from what went wrong and how best organizations can plan for the future. Such planning will investigate current good practice, adding some “steroids” to them such that organizations can hopefully stay in front of the next “breach”!

Steve Yates – Chairman of the Resilience Association, will share frontline experience about critical data assets security and protection of user privacy.  

Key Takeaways:

- Be aware of the challenges being experienced in the protection of data security & privacy;
- Understand how best to plan your data resources and capacity to meet tomorrow’s defense;
- Discover the core organizational elements needed for the establishment of a strategic, tactical and operational solution

Strengthen Data Security Strategy for Tomorrow's Resilience Defense

AWS infrastructure offers robust native security mechanisms, but the shared responsibility model places critical configuration burdens on app owners. This creates gaps that attackers can actively exploit through misconfigurations, privilege escalation, and cross-service vulnerabilities which can compromise entire cloud deployments.

Security automation emerges as an essential defense strategy for threat modeling, enabling businesses to enforce security best practices from deployment through ongoing operations. Automated security controls provide continuous monitoring, real-time threat detection, and optimized remediation across AWS services. This ensures a consistent security posture while reducing human error and response times.

Join Ernesto Marquez, Founder and Project Director at Concurrency Labs, to explore proven AWS security automation strategies for threat mitigation.

Key Takeaways: 

- Implement automated security controls that enforce best practices across AWS services 
- Deploy continuous monitoring and real-time threat detection for multicloud environments 
- Configure automated remediation workflows for common security vulnerabilities 
- Integrate AWS security automation tools into comprehensive threat modeling frameworks 
- Establish governance policies that maintain security consistency across cloud deployments

Deploy Automated AWS Defenses for Threat Prevention

As cloud supply chain attacks escalate in sophistication, traditional SBOMs alone prove insufficient for comprehensive security. While SBOMs provide valuable component inventories, they lack runtime verification capabilities—creating a critical blind spot that malicious actors increasingly exploit. This gap between static analysis and runtime behavior represents one of the most significant vulnerabilities in modern cloud environments.

The "Bill of Behavior" (BoB) approach addresses this challenge by providing vendor-supplied profiles of expected runtime behaviors. Generated using eBPF technology, BoBs codify legitimate syscalls, file access patterns and network communications. This enables immediate anomaly detection without custom rule creation, allowing organizations to verify software integrity throughout the supply chain and during execution, dramatically reducing the attack surface while simplifying security operations.

Join Dr. Constanze Roedig, Key Researcher at SBA-Research and Founder of Fusioncore.ai, to discover how this emerging standard complements existing SBOM frameworks to create verifiable trust in your cloud ecosystem.

Key Takeaways:
- Understand how Software Bills of Behavior (SBoBs) create verifiable trust between vendors and clients
- Learn practical implementation strategies using existing OCI distribution standards
- Discover how BoBs significantly reduce attack surfaces across both runtime and supply chain vectors
- Explore immediate benefits of receiving vendor-supplied behavior profiles with software packages
- Discover how CNCF Kubescape allows anomaly detection out of the box

Beyond SBOMs: Runtime Verification for Bulletproof Cloud Supply Chains

Organizations are rapidly adopting AI technologies without fully understanding the security implications. This is creating unprecedented vulnerabilities in cloud environments. In turn, with AI accessible to all stakeholders, the human factor has become the weakest link in cybersecurity defense strategies.

This session addresses critical considerations for IT and cybersecurity leaders to balance business innovation with risk management. Learn how to establish ethical AI frameworks, implement proper access controls, and build awareness programs that protect your organization while enabling AI adoption.

Join Kathleen Mullin, vCISO and Consultant, to explore practical strategies for securing AI in cloud environments while maintaining business agility.

Key takeaways:

• Define clear RACI matrices for AI business risk ownership and accountability 
• Assess whether AI solutions truly meet business requirements vs. alternative approaches
• Establish data governance and access controls specifically for cloud-based AI systems 
• Develop comprehensive AI awareness programs for organizational stakeholders 
• Evaluate current and future cloud AI risks within your security framework

Considerations: Securing the Cloud And In Specific AI

As organizations accelerate cloud adoption, sophisticated security technologies often create a false sense of protection while the most significant threats emerge from within. Human behaviour continues to be the weakest link in cloud security, not due to malicious intent, but through everyday mistakes that inadvertently expose critical systems.

When they create friction, security measures designed to protect can inadvertently increase risk as users will find shortcuts to achieve their legitimate objectives. This session explores the psychology behind user decision-making and reveals how threat actors exploit human nature to bypass cloud defenses, turning legitimate business processes into attack vectors.

Join Simon Ratcliffe, independent management & technology consultant, to discover practical strategies for human-centered cloud security.

Key Takeaways:

- Identify psychological triggers that make users vulnerable to cloud-based attacks 
- Recognize how security friction drives risky user behaviors and workarounds
- Design user-centric security that reduces human error without compromising protection 
- Develop indicators to detect insider threats before they escalate 
- Build security awareness programs that create lasting behavioral change

Securing the Human Element: Why People Remain Cloud Security's Top Vulnerability in 2025

Insider threats are one of the most challenging security risks in multicloud environments, where authorized users can exploit fragmented access controls and limited visibility across platforms. When organizations lack comprehensive oversight of user activities, data flows and privilege escalation paths, the risk posed by human error and malicious insiders is much greater.



Multicloud architectures amplify insider threat risks through inconsistent identity management, scattered audit trails, and complex permission structures that create blind spots for security teams. Strategic threat modeling designed around insider risks enables organizations to map user access patterns, identify privilege abuse scenarios, and implement behavioral monitoring across all cloud platforms before incidents occur.



Join Sandeep Tripathi, IT Solutions Designer at Daimler Truck AG, to discover systematic approaches for detecting and preventing insider threats in complex multicloud environments.



Key Takeaways: 

- Identify insider risk scenarios across cloud platforms using threat modelling frameworks
- Implement comprehensive user behavior analytics and cross-cloud activity monitoring
- Limit insider threat impact and lateral movement using zero-trust access controls.
- Develop incident response protocols for insider-driven security breaches
- Create governance frameworks for managing privileged access in multicloud environments

Mitigate Insider Threats in Multicloud Through Strategic Modeling

Every minute your cloud infrastructure grows, it creates new entry points for potential attacks. As organizations rush to embrace cloud innovations, they're unknowingly building digital labyrinths where traditional security measures fall short.

Cloud security threats are often perceived as purely technical challenges, but the human factor remains one of the most significant and underestimated risks. Misconfigurations, weak passwords, phishing attacks, and inadequate training open doors to breaches even in sophisticated environments. Employees inadvertently expose sensitive data through social engineering, while administrators overlook crucial updates. Insider threats pose significant risks when cloud systems are accessible from anywhere.

Join Jyotirmayee Pradeep Kumar, Vice President of Cloud DevOps at a leading global bank, to explore human factors in cloud security threats.

Key Takeaways: 
- Human error as the leading cause of cloud security breaches 
- Phishing attacks and social engineering threat vectors 
- Managing insider threats in distributed cloud environments 
- Essential security awareness training and culture development 
- Zero Trust architecture implementation strategies

Managing Human Risk in Cloud Security Operations

AI technologies are simultaneously completely transforming business operations and creating new security vulnerabilities that cannot be addressed by technical safeguards alone. When implementing AI-driven solutions, human oversight is the biggest differentiator between secure innovation and catastrophic data breaches. As such, human intervention is both the biggest vulnerability and most significant defense in organizational security architectures.

To address this challenge, IT leaders can build a security champions program—a network of engaged employees who understand AI-specific threats and serve as frontline defenders. This group bridges the gap between security teams and other business units. They spread security awareness throughout the organization while maintaining operational efficiency.

Join Vincent Amanyi to discover proven strategies for empowering a team of security champions who can help safeguard your organization's AI initiatives and digital assets.

Key Takeaways:

- Learn to assess AI-related security risks across all business functions
- Design a people-centric security strategy that combines technical controls and human intelligence
- Establish and structure an effective Security Champions Committee with clear roles and responsibilities

Fortifying the Human Firewall: Cultivating Security Champions in Today's AI Landscape

In today's threat landscape, where the average data breach costs organizations $9 million, your employees represent both your greatest vulnerability and your strongest defense. As AI-powered threats become more sophisticated and remote work expands the attack surface, traditional security awareness approaches are failing to create lasting behavioral change. The human element remains implicated in over 80% of breaches, yet most training programs still focus on compliance checkboxes rather than cultivating security champions.

Effective security awareness requires a strategic approach that addresses psychological barriers, leverages behavioral science and creates sustainable security habits. By reimagining how we engage employees—from executive leadership to frontline staff—organizations can transform their security culture from a perceived burden into a competitive advantage that measurably reduces incident rates and response times.

Join Ralph Villanueva, with 15+ years leading enterprise security awareness programs, to discover proven methodologies that transform employee behavior.

Key takeaways:

- Implement psychological triggers that convert passive training participants into active security defenders
- Design role-specific awareness programs that address the unique risks of different departments
- Measure training effectiveness beyond completion rates with behavior-based security metrics
- Secure executive buy-in by connecting awareness initiatives to tangible business outcomes
- Deploy just-in-time learning techniques that deliver training when employees are most receptive

Transforming Human Risk: 10 Battle-Tested Strategies for Modern Security Awareness

Organizations are investing heavily in advanced security tools. But the most critical—and vulnerable—component of cybersecurity defense is people. As AI-driven attacks and quantum-era risks emerge, the gap between technological capabilities and human cognitive readiness threatens to widen dramatically.

Security professionals face unprecedented pressure when responding to incidents. Even with robust detection and recovery tools, factors like stress, fatigue and decision paralysis can significantly increase recovery times and amplify damage. This presentation introduces an expanded MTTR formula incorporating the "Human Cognitive Factor"—a groundbreaking approach that addresses the psychological dimensions of security response that technology alone cannot solve.

Join Sandra Estok (Founder & CEO, Way2Protect) to discover why preparing employees will determine your organization's survival in the 2026 threatscape.

Key Takeaways:

- Master the expanded MTTR formula that quantifies how human cognitive factors impact recovery timelines
- Identify early warning signs of team cognitive impairment before they compromise your security posture
- Implement practical strategies to build psychological resilience and decision-making clarity under pressure
- Establish metrics that measure human performance alongside technical metrics for comprehensive security assessment
- Learn how leadership decisions about culture, team structure, and psychological safety directly influence threat response effectiveness

Strengthening Your Human Firewall: Closing Cognitive Security Gaps Before 2026

Both endpoint security and endpoint management are becoming more challenging, largely driven by an increasingly complex threat landscape and a greater number (and assortment) of both managed and unmanaged endpoint devices. This, combined with an overabundance of tools deployed to deal with these threats and devices, has created a false sense of security and the inability to process all the data being collected.

 To combat this, organizations are making efforts to integrate the teams, tools, and processes involved, and these efforts are having a positive impact on visibility and awareness. Similarly, organizations are eager to adopt new tools like Autonomous Endpoint Management to help them achieve their goals.

In this session from Endpoint Management and Security Gabe Knuth, you’ll learn both what research reveals about the challenges facing organizations, the risks associated with the status quo, and the path forward to improving overall endpoint management and security.

Overcoming Increasing Endpoint Security & Management Challenges

The recent rash of ransomware attacks and evolving cyber security threats make cyber security insurance a necessity, both to protect the company and to reassure clients and investors of the safety of their data. 

In this presentation, Ralph Villanueva will leverage more than a decade’s IT security and compliance experience, and his intimate knowledge of cyber security insurance as a licensed agent and broker for property and casualty insurance, including cyber security insurance, to discuss how IT leadership can make their company more cyber security insurable.

Tune into this webinar to learn:
•         Relevant information that cybersecurity insurance underwriters need.
•         Key areas that can affect the company’s cyber insurability.
•         Actions that the IT leadership can do to make the company cyber insurable.

About the speaker:
Ralph has been keeping his employers compliant with IT and cybersecurity requirements across numerous and diverse regulations such as the Nevada Gaming Control Board, Payment Card Industry, COSO-Integrated Framework, COBIT and ISO 27001 since 2007, and data privacy since 2017. His more than two decades of internal and IT audit and compliance work in the US and the Asia Pacific region provide him with insights not only in enforcing IT and cybersecurity requirements in light of changing regulatory and technical environments, but also in anticipating and dealing with future. Ralph has also earned numerous certifications such as the ISO 27001LA and ISO 27701LA, CISA and CISM, PCI-ISA and PCIP, CIA and CRMA, CFE, CPA and ITIL. Since 2010, Ralph has regularly spoken at over 40 conferences.

Tips to make your company cyber insurable

Historically, risk management has consisted of the controls over risk, acceptance of risk, and transfer of risk. Cyber resilience overlays those concepts with cyber-related security, business continuity and cyber insurance. This presentation from Risk Masters International's Executive Principal Steven Ross will examine how insurance fits into a cyber resilience program and what the challenges are in obtaining coverage that meets an organization’s needs.

Tune into this webinar to learn:
• How market forces, especially ransomware and cryptocurrency, have affected both resilience and insurance.
• The technology challenges in acquiring cyber insurance.
• How small and medium sized businesses are affected in their ability to be cyber resilient.
• Inclusion of artificial intelligence in insurance decisions.

About the speaker:
Steve holds certification as a Master Business Continuity Professional (MBCP) as well as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He is a specialist in business continuity management, IT disaster recovery planning, and information security and has implemented programs for numerous banks, government agencies, and industrial corporations. Before founding Risk Masters, Steve was with Deloitte & Touche as the leader of their Business Continuity Management practice. In recent years, his focus has been on the resilience of large business and technology environments. He is editor of the multi-volume series, e-Commerce Security, and author of several of the books in the series.

Cyber insurance as a part of a cyber resilience program

Tune into this webinar session, presented by Boleaum Inc. founder Vincent Amanyi, to learn the three fundamental factors to consider when building a classic ransomware protection strategy for your organizational landscape.

Key Takeaways:
- How to prepare a recover plan.
- How to limit the scope of damage from a ransomware attack.
- How to harden your environment, making it harder for ransomware attacks to get in.

Three-phase ransomware protection strategy

Ransomware is by no means a new topic, but is relevant nonetheless, due to the continued prevalence with which bad actors engage in ransomware campaigns. As we enter the new year, the threat of ransomware attacks is certainly evolving, and new trends emerge. But what are these ransomware trends and how can you safeguard data against new attack vectors?

In this upcoming fireside chat during BrightTALK’s Ransomware Summit, Pure Storage Principal Technologist, Andrew Miller, and Towerwall CEO, Michelle Drolet, will sit down to discuss ransomware’s latest, looking into current attack trends, and providing insight into the importance of ransomware resiliency.

Tune in live for the full webcast and see what industry experts have to say about the state of ransomware, why building a resilient architecture is important, and how Pure Storage is helping customers respond and recover from attacks.

Ransomware Preparedness Before, During and After

From the WannaCrys and Bad Rabbits of 2017 to today’s Lapsus$ and Conti groups, ransomware remains one of the most pervasive—and unpredictable—attacks your organization faces. Considering ransomware attack frequency, it’s likely not a matter of if, but when, your company will be hit. In this situation, the best defense is an offense—and you’ll need more than frequent backups and basic malware detection to thwart ransomware threats today.  

To equip your company for success, register for this upcoming webinar, sponsored by Rubrik at BrightTALK’s Ransomware Summit this month: Devising Your 2023 IT Strategy: Must-Have Components for Successful Ransomware Recovery. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn the best methods of defending against, mitigating, and recovering from a ransomware attack on your company’s behalf.

2023’s Must-Have Ransomware Recovery Components for Success

Ransomware attacks have become such a common occurrence that it’s no longer if your business will be hit, it’s a matter of when. Cyber attacks are so pervasive that an attack happens every 11 seconds. By 2031, it’s expected that an attack will occur every 3 seconds, ballooning the total damages caused by malware, including downtime costs, recovery time, and lost revenues, to grow by 15% per year over the next five years.

Join Andrew Miller, Principal Technologist at Pure Storage, as he shares how your organization can protect itself before, during and after a Ransomware attack. Andrew will walk through the Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack, Defense in Depth measures, and then how Pure can help. Whether or not you’re a Pure Storage customer, we believe you’ll find this session educational both around the ransomware landscape and defense principles.

Before, During and After a Ransomware Attack: A Resilience Strategy

Ransomware is an omnipresent threat to every business. A comprehensive defense and recovery plan is an essential requirement for managing and mitigating this risk. Such a plan must take a 360-degree view of the enterprise’s risk as well as identify and address the many uncertainties faced by victims of ransomware.

This presentation from Risk Masters International's Allan Cytryn will provide this 360-degree view. Participants will come away understanding the ransomware risk vectors, the options for addressing them, and the limits of their effectiveness. Recovery is a key component of risk mitigation. Relevant options and alternatives will be discussed. 

In addition, attendees will learn the the operational lifecycle of a ransomware attack – from anticipatory risk mitigation, to attack, then to recovery, and finally resumption of normal operations. Recovery planning is only effective if conducted in this broader context.

About the speaker:
Allan has more than 30 years of experience in senior IT Leadership roles in the finance and financial services sector. His responsibilities have included Regional CIO and Managing Director for Applications at Deloitte, CIO for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Vice President of Corporate Finance at Goldman Sachs, Group Vice President for Funds Transfer and Foreign Exchange Systems at Bankers Trust.

Allan is also on the Executive Board of the Boston Global Forum, a think-tank founded by Governor Michael Dukakis. In this role he has advised governments on Cyber Security and AI policies and has contributed to the 2016 G7 Cyber Security Declaration at the G7 meeting in Isa Shima, Japan. This was the first ever joint statement on cyber security from the G7 world leaders.

Recovery from a ransomware attack: How to prepare and plan to minimize risk

In this authentic and honest talk from "Britain's Greatest Fraudster" and Fraud Expert, Tony Sales, you’ll learn to see the world from an attacker’s point of view, understand how cyber criminals exploit the trust customers place in the companies they do business with, and why organisations continue to fail in the battle against cyber crime. 

Tony is joined by Rubrik’s Enterprise CTO - EMEA, James Hughes who asks insightful questions and explains what organisations can do today to win the race against ransomware.

Why The Race Is On To Save The Data: Cyber Crime Expert Explains

Join Matt Wilson from Netrix Global for YASOR (Yet Another Session On Ransomware), where we'll discuss the fundamental failures that lead to a damaging ransomware event. We'll highlight a few interesting examples and common failure patterns throughout. There are plenty of tools and solutions that help, but the blocking and tackling of Information Security make successful organizations resilient against the ransomware threat. We'll close our session with a focus on the People, Processes, Technologies, and Philosophies mature organizations implement that reduce ransomware risk.

 Netrix Global is an award-winning MSSP and MSP that designs, delivers, and supports business-critical solutions for our clients across the full spectrum of their complex, risky, and ever-changing IT infrastructures.

Matt Wilson is the Director of Sales Engineering at Netrix Global and is a veteran information security consultant with vast experience in a number of industry verticals. He specializes in network security, policy/process assessment and development, penetration testing, and application assessments.

Why Companies Still Struggle With Ransomware

The ransomware threat has been prevalent for years and organizations have realized that there is no way to be completely immune. It is not a question of if but when your organization will be faced with a ransomware attack. However, there are protection strategies organizations can implement to be more resilient to ransomware. 

Join cyber security experts, Rob Black, CISSP, CEO and Founder of Fractional CISO and Drew Schlussel, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Wasabi to walk through the different stages of a ransomware attack and preventative steps to take at every stage of the attack.

No One is Immune from Ransomware: Preventative Strategies for Ransomware Attacks

Very often threat actors and criminals will infiltrate a victim's network days or even weeks before planting malware. How can you detect threat actors before they attack? And how do you monitor your network all time?
 
Do you have someone watching your network on the weekends or over holiday breaks? Many companies not have eyes on glass 24x7 because it’s just too expensive. For the SMB market, it is not cost effective to hire 7 to 10 people to staff your security operations center 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

What does make sense is finding a trusted partner who offers Managed Detection and Response (MDR) to watch your computer network 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 
 
Tune into this session to learn how outsourcing MDR to a reliable managed service provider (MSP) can be beneficial for businesses with $5M in revenue to $500M in revenue. Discover how insured MSP watch your network for signs of a ransomware attack and take on that risk for you. Finally, get some rest on the holiday break knowing that your network is monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Monitor your environment 24/7 with a MDR solution

Ransomware is a huge concern for many organizations. Ensuring resilience against these attacks requires robust measures. However, those countermeasures need to be in keeping with the organization’s overall security strategy. 

Zero trust began as a security model for network security but its concepts and value are now recognized as supporting the overall security posture of an organization. Many are using or deploying a zero trust security architecture throughout their security operations. Zero trust concepts can and should be used to prevent or, at a minimum mitigate, the damage caused by ransomware. This webinar will explore how companies can utilize zero trust for effective ransomware defense.

Join this discussion to discover:
• How ransomware operates which allows it to promulgate within an environment.
• The concepts of zero trust that support ransomware resilience.
• How an organization can leverage an existing zero trust architecture to specifically address ransomware.
• Solutions that support zero trust mitigation of ransomware.

Thwarting ransomware with zero trust

This presentation will cover the methodology and measures organizations could take to prevent ransomware. It represents real-world practices, based on ransomware attacks statistics and deep analysis of ransomware groups TTPs.

• The most popular intrusion paths can be locked out
• Little efforts can cause significant problems for the spread of ransomware
• There are several ways to reduce the risk of your infrastructure being encrypted
• Light in the darkness: Is it possible to recover after encryption?

Ransomware Prevention Strategies

With the undersupply of cybersecurity professionals across the industry and with no sign of cyber threats slowing down, this makes a security leaders working environments become more complex. Some organisations are facing up to 25K+ alerts per day and continually rising, as a result their security team has difficulty maintaining their cybersecurity environment, building cyber resiliency and ultimately prone to be the next ransomware victim.  

Join Jonathan Jackson – Director Sales Engineering, from the BlackBerry Cybersecurity team in APAC to learn: 

• Proactive management best practices by leveraging new unified alert management capabilities, automating your security
• How you can take advantage of solutions with new rich features for simplified and enhanced predictive security.

It’s time to outsmart and outlast modern cyber threats.

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Ransomware Protection Best Practices

Ransomware attacks are top of mind for CISOs and CIOs as they can cripple an entire enterprise. Making matters worse, some ransomware operators are stealing data and trying to extort organizations publicly to get paid. 

Tune into this talk to learn some of the newest ransomware trends including how threat actors are attacking cloud resources. and the sophisticated threat prevention techniques organizations can adopt to stop ransomware before their organization falls prey.

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