The Evolution of Ransomware: From Extortion to Exploitation

Guest:

• Bob Blakley, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mimic

Topics:

• Tell us about the ransomware problem - isn't this a bit of old news? Circa 2015, right?
• What makes ransomware a unique security problem? 
• What's different about ransomware versus other kinds of malware? What do you make of the “RansomOps” take (aka “ransomware is not malware”)?
• Are there new ways to solve it?
• Is this really a problem that a startup is positioned to solve? Aren’t large infrastructure owners better positioned for this? In fact, why haven't existing solutions solved this? 
• Is this really a symptom of a bigger problem?  What is that problem?
• What made you personally want to get into this space, other than the potential upside of solving the problem? 

Resources:

• EP206 Paying the Price: Ransomware's Rising Stakes in the Cloud
• EP89 Can We Escape Ransomware by Migrating to the Cloud?
• EP45 VirusTotal Insights on Ransomware Business and Technology
• EP204 Beyond PCAST: Phil Venables on the Future of Resilience and Leading Indicators
• EP7 No One Expects the Malware Inquisition
• Anderson Report (July 1972) 
• “The Innovator Dilemma” book
• “Odyssey” book (yes, really)
• Crowdstrike External Technical Root Cause Analysis — Channel File 291 (yes, that one)