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Why do we organise this training ?
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts the data on systems and mobile devices, making it unusable and inaccessible, and only releasing this data after paying a ransom. Below, you can find a long and growing list of large and medium-sized companies that were recently taken hostage via ransomware.
Ransomware attacks on businesses, governments and individuals are unfortunately on the rise, and are currently considered the main cybersecurity threat..
Most ransomware attacks start via an email with an infected attachment or via a link to an infected web page. When opening the attachment or browsing the website, the ransomware is installed unnoticed. This can take the entire corporate network hostage.
This new afternoon seminar provides participants with the necessary insights into preventing, responding to and curing ransomware. After all, prevention is much better (and cheaper) than the cure.
This session will be presented live again on September 28th, allowing us to address specific questions from the participants. Don't be afraid to share juicy details, this session is not recorded.
What do you learn from this training ?
In this practical and pragmatic training, we zoom in on the various vulnerabilities associated with ransomware, how we can limit the risks as much as possible and map attack attempts.
You will learn, among other things:
Who is this training for ?
This training is aimed at both security professionals and:
This is a live online-only training, where we try to simulate the interaction and group feeling of an onsite meeting. We ask for your cooperation by turning on your camera and participating via the interactive chat, raising your hand, interrupting the speaker to ask questions, exchanging ideas via a whiteboard, etc. In this way, we can create as much, often even more, value for the participants. This is not going to be a boring webinar where Erwin shows slides and reads a text, on the contrary ...
Why do we organise this training ?
This is a very up-to-date seminar: Ransomware has become an even bigger problem due to covid19 because of the use of poorly secured laptops, WiFi networks, VPNs, cloud applications, ... by home workers.
This new training from @itworks is a response to the many news stories about how ransomware is completely shutting down a company. Prevention is better than cure, and in this afternoon seminar we want to zoom in very pragmatically on the various vulnerabilities associated with ransomware and how we can minimize the risks and map attack attempts.
Timing:
These are some of the large and medium-sized companies that were recently taken hostage via ransomware (some articles in Dutch):
Erwin Geirnaert Co-founder and Chief Application Security Architect at Shift Left Security, a start-up that helps companies to build, develop and operate secure applications running in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. We provide solutions to continuously monitor the overall security posture of your application, provide assistance on how to solve and mitigate vulnerabilities and help to become compliant.
Erwin is the former Co-founder and Chief Hacking Officer at ZIONSECURITY, the European application security company.
Erwin is a specialist in J2EE security, .NET security, API Security and web services security. He has more than 20 years experience in executing security tests aka penetration testing of web applications, mobile apps, APIs and thick client applications. He also architects secure e-business projects for banks, web agencies and software companies, and is a recognized application security expert and speaker at international events like Javapolis, LSEC, OWASP, Eurostar, Infosecurity, ...
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