Ransomware & Business Email Compromise Webinar

On Wednesday, April 17^th Risk Strategies, in partnership with cyber security experts The Crypsis Group, hosted a webinar looking at Ransomware & Business Email Compromise.  We were joined on the webinar by Chris Salsberry, a Senior Director at Crypsis, who has over 20 years of digital and forensic investigative experience.  There were a few main takeaways from the webinar:

• People are the greatest weakness in a company’s cyber defense, with 52% of incidents resulting from employee negligence.
• The bad actors aren’t just trying to steal personal identifiable information but are frequently monitoring email correspondence to manipulate invoices and/or to redirect payroll direct deposit to accounts they control.
• Ransomware has become prevalent.
• Ransomware is more destructive, causing significant downtime and leaving businesses with no choice but to pay.
• Ransomware extortion demands are typically in digital currency and in excess of $250K.  Qualified forensic investigative firms such as Crypsis have bitcoin wallets and relationships with bitcoin brokers so that companies don’t have to maintain their own bitcoin wallet.
• Employee training and multifactor authentication, are vital.
• Beyond its financial value, cyber insurance provides immediate access to necessary vendors including forensic firms at significantly discounted rates.

Those are the high points, but we covered a lot more important ground.  Below you will find the webinar to learn more.