Ransomware Attacks

SMC Journal

Ransomware attacks are on the rise and have increased by almost 50% in the last year. How can companies mitigate this threat and lower the severity of impact on their business? Ron Foster from Saltworks Security walks us through it.

Show Notes

Thales 2023 Report on Ransomware: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/security/press_release/2023-thales-data-threat-report-reveals-increase-ransomware-attacks

https://www.blackfog.com/why-are-ransomware-attacks-on-the-rise/

7 Steps to Mitigate: https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/blog/7-steps-to-help-prevent-limit-the-impact-of-ransomware

Sponsors

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks Saltminer, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.
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