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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 this post for the basis for our conversation on this week’s episode which features me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series, co-host Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO, LinkedIn, 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?