Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home.

I'm Brian McCullough, as promised, one of my favorite ever cyber security interviews with Cyber Reasons C. I. S. O. Israel Barak, explaining to us all how these

cyber ransom incidents work. Enjoy.

Israel Barak, thanks for coming on the show. You're the CISO at Cyber Reason, right?

That is right.

Thank you, Brian, for having me.

Yeah, well, so I wanted to kind of lead off with the joke

that you guys probably seem like you've been busy lately,

but actually, is that the right way to frame it like have especially

ransomware attacks gotten more common lately or is it just that there's been a lot of

high profile incidents lately that a lay person like me is more

likely to be aware of. So I think one of the things that are happening in the

rents more space is that the impact of the average ransomware incident on an enterprise

enterprise victim has become a lot bigger.

In the past,

ransomware incidents were either mitigated with, you know, a simple, something as simple as having a working backup of some of the data that you have on the endpoints,

or they were just not something that was very impactful

to enterprise organizations in general

and that were more impactful on smaller businesses

and individuals that ended up losing, you know, losing photos and likes of that.

But over the past two years and this past year especially, Ransmore operators have shifted

a lot of their resources to focus specifically on what's going to create an impact on a large impact on

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