Intro

Join me as I talk with the National Director of Business Continuity for Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, John Luizzi. We talk about crisis leadership during a ransomware event. During our chat John talks about: 1. Defining Ransomware, 2. How Ransomware is different from other cyber events, 3. Detecting and event, 4. Patch Management, 5. Manual processes 6. Employee education 7. How to escalating the ransomware issue when discovered, 8. The crisis management team and activating appropriate internal/external response teams, 9. Recreating data, 10. Who's in Charge? 11. Legal team involvement, 12. Bringing in the BCM and DR team (and others), 13. Communications, 14. The FBI and other law enforcement, 15. Don't underestimate the risk, impact, and threat...and more! A ransomware event provides organizations allot of challenges and John share some great insights on how to manage a ransomware event should your organization be unlucky enough to experience one. Enjoy!