The Current Threat Landscape & Enterprise Remediation

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Presented at DataConnectorsCincinnati 2019 by

Jarryd Boyd

The threat landscape is changing rapidly, we are moving away from consumer focused attacks and entering the age of heavy ransomware infection of organizational networks, such as businesses, hospitals, and municipal networks. To better understand this trend, we delve into the detections, trend lines and real world events that coincide with this surge of ransom threats, to better understand where they came from and where they are going. In this presentation, we will be discussing numerous families of ransomware who have had serious change to how much we see of them over the years, specifically 2016 – 2019, including ransom families like Ryuk, GandCrab and Locky. In addition to this, we take a look at local detections of the top ten countries dealing with ransomware today and provide guidance on how to deal with today’s ransomware threat.Attendees should expect to:Become familiar with the shift in targets by ransomware and the reasons behind itFind out this history of some of the most prolific ransomware families we have dealt with over the yearsIdentify top countries hit with ransomware and what families they are fightingDetermine how to best protect their networks and users from these threatsHear about predictions and possible evolutions in the ransomware world over the next year.