Preventing Ransomware

Published: Sept. 2, 2021, 10 a.m.

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What is the most critical step to preventing ransomware? Security professionals may be quick to judge users and say it's a lack of cyberawareness. Could it be something else?

Check out\xa0this 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\xa0Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO,\xa0LinkedIn, and our guest Rebecca Harness (@rebeccaharness), CISO, St. Louis University.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, VMware

In this episode:

  • What is the one critical step to preventing ransomware?
  • The importance of leadership and employee buy-in
  • How to make training and education actually work
  • Should backups be included on this list?
  • What about the supply chain?