Ransomware Keeps Holding us Hostage. Are You Ready? | Lance Reck

August 10 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm

ABSTRACT:

Ransomware attacks continue to escalate, posing significant threats to organizations worldwide. Let’s face it, you are going to experience this at least once in your professional career. Recently, ransomware.org surveyed hundreds of organizations and found that around 56% of businesses were unsure whether their defenses were capable enough to fend off attacks. Your ability to withstand a ransomware attack depends on your level of preparedness. This presentation explores the importance of being well-prepared to effectively defend against ransomware incidents. By establishing effective and proactive security measures, organizations can better defend against ransomware attacks and minimize their impact. If done well, these measures do not have to be costly in resources and time and have a multiplier effect on an organization.

Lance Reck, Associate Director of Services

With a balanced combination of advanced technology skills, business acumen, and talent for leadership, Lance Reck provides security-focused advisory service to IOActive’s top customers. A problem-solver continually sought by senior management to resolve the most critical business issues, he has provided mission-critical operational leadership, security assessments, and incident response expertise for major airlines, Fortune 100 retail perchants, payment industry service providers and processors, major banking institutions, and many private small to medium size organizations.

His solid knowledge of international markets and customers, includes decades of professional experience in information technology operations, information security, and software development. Lance’s operational knowledge and hands-on experience includes implementation of best practices and standards in product development, Agile and Scrum, application threat modeling, DevSecOps, ITIL, ISO 27000, CoBiT, NIST, NSA, and the Payment Card Industry (PCI), HIPAA/HITRUST, risk management, and IT governance and compliance.