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How Does Ransomware Enter the Network?

Published: Aug. 12, 2021, 10 a.m.

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How is ransomware getting into your network? Is the path direct, like via email, or does it take a more circuitous route?

Check out\xa0this post\xa0and this post for the basis for our conversation on this week\u2019s episode which features me,\xa0David Spark\xa0(@dspark), producer of CISO Series, co-host Steve Zalewski, and our sponsored guest Ryan Kalember (@rkalember), evp, cybersecurity strategy, Proofpoint.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Proofpoint

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In this episode:

  • What role do email and phishing actually play?
  • Has working from home really increased the threat?
  • How dwell time has changed things
  • Getting up to speed on sufficient backups

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