A recent global research report conducted by Cybereason, titled Ransomware: The True Cost to Business, revealed that the vast majority of organizations that have suffered a ransomware attack have experienced significant impact to the business, including loss of revenue, damage to the organization’s brand, unplanned workforce reductions, and little in the way of relief from cyber insurance policies. 

Date: Thursday July 29th

Time: 1:00 PM EDT / 10:00 AM PDT

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An esteemed panel of subject matter experts will examine the research findings and discuss how organizations can better prepare to defend against and respond to a ransomware attack, with topics for the session to include:

• Whether organizations should ever consider paying a ransom demand
• If organizations have the right people, processes and policies in place to address the risk posed by ransomware attacks
• The wide-reaching impacts to the business following a successful ransomware attack
• Whether organizations are making the right investments in security prior to a ransomware attack and where they are investing after being a victim

The event is being produced as a live webinar version of the CISO Stories Podcast, a weekly podcast that takes a deep dive on security leadership issues and is produced by Cybereason and the CyberRisk Alliance’s Cybersecurity Collaborative, a prominent CISO networking group.

About the Author

Cybereason Security Team

The Cybereason Security Team champions cyber defenders by providing future-ready attack protection that unifies security from the endpoint, to the enterprise, to everywhere the battle moves. The Cybereason Defense Platform combines the industry’s top-rated detection and response (EDR and XDR), next-gen anti-virus (NGAV), and proactive threat hunting to deliver context-rich analysis of every element of a Malop (malicious operation). The result: defenders can end cyber attacks from endpoints to everywhere.

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Moderators and Panelists

Moderator

Sam Curry

Chief Security Officer, Cybereason

Sam is a Visiting Fellow at the National Security Institute, and prior to joining Cybereason was CTO and CISO for Arbor Networks (NetScout) and was CSO and SVP R&D at MicroStrategy in addition to holding senior security roles at McAfee and CA. He spent 7 years at RSA, the Security Division of EMC as Chief Technologist and SVP of Product. Sam also has over 20 patents in security from his time as a security architect, has been a leader in two successful startups and is a board member of the Cybersecurity Coalition, of SSH Communications and of Sequitur Labs.

Moderator

Todd Fitzgerald

Vice President, Cybersecurity Strategy at Cybersecurity Collaborative

Todd has built Fortune 500/large company security programs for 20 years, and was named 2016–17 Chicago CISO of the Year, ranked Top 50 Information Security Executive, authored 4 books including #1 Best Selling and 2020 CANON Hall of Fame Winner CISO COMPASS: Navigating Cybersecurity Leadership Challenges with Insights from Pioneers (2019), ground-breaking CISO Leadership: Essential Principles for Success, as well as contributions to a dozen others. Todd held senior leadership positions at Northern Trust, Grant Thornton International, Ltd, ManpowerGroup, WellPoint (Anthem) Blue Cross Blue Shield/ National Government Services, Zeneca/Syngenta, IMS Health and American Airlines.

Panelist

Frank Johnson

Chief Customer Officer SecuLore Solutions

Frank is currently Chief Customer Officer SecuLore Solutions and formerly the CIO for the City of Baltimore. As a “ransomware battle-tested” CIO, Frank is now focused on helping others in all aspects of cyber security. Providing cyber thought leadership and best practices as an Ambassador of the Cybersecurity Collaborative – a member organization for CISOs by CISOs. And now as the Chief Customer Officer for a leading-edge cyber security product and services company. Prior to joining SecuLore Solutions, Frank served as the City of Baltimore’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Digital Officer (CDO) charged with leading and supporting all digital transformation programs and efforts. He also led Intel Corporation’s Enterprise business and was VP and General Manager, Americas Industry Sales Group.

Panelist

Kerissa Varma

CISO at Old Mutual Limited

Kerissa Varma is the Group Chief Information Security Officer of Old Mutual Limited, one of the largest financial services organizations on the African continent with a vast footprint across 13 African markets. She manages information security, business resilience and technology strategy with dispersed teams across Africa. She has a demonstrated history of building and scaling security capabilities in a number of industries including healthcare, telecommunications, transport, government, and financial services and is a passionate advocate for technology and security.

Panelist

Bryan Hurd

Chief of Office, Aon Cyber

Bryan has worked on hundreds of ransomware, intrusion, espionage cases and litigation related efforts over 30 years. He is a globally recognized computer forensics leader and expert in cyber intelligence, investigations, and operations to fight espionage, terrorism, organized crime groups and criminals. Bryan founded of the Cyber Counterintelligence program for the US Navy at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) in 1994 and has gone on to hold executive positions as first Director of Intelligence for the Digital Crimes Unit within the Microsoft Cyber Crime Center, founding the computer forensics program at EDS (Now HP) and was the Chief of Operations, Director of Terrorist Identities at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).