Ransomware threat actors today and how to thwart them

Top experts convened on BrightTALK's 'CISO Insights' to discuss 'Ransomware 3.0' -- the current threat and what organizations, large and small, must do to thwart these bad actors.

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The threat from ransomware continues to occupy CISOs. For every security advance made to battle it, cybercriminals devise a way to thwart it. But there can be no surrender in this arms race -- because the damage to organizations can be existential.

For a recent episode of CISO Insights -- "Ransomware 3.0: Can Anything Stop These Bad Actors?" -- hosts Dan Lohrmann of Presidio and Earl Duby of Auxiom reviewed the latest ransomware developments with a panel of experts: Erika Gifford, of Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center, Darrin Kimes, a consultant for Verizon Threat Intelligence, and Allan Liska, a ransomware researcher at Recorded Future.