Date | Wednesday 11 Sep 2019 |
Time | 18:30 for 18:45 |
Location | Tavistock Suite Mercure bedford Centre Hotel, 2 St Mary's Street, Bedford MK42 0AR |
Speaker | Geraint Williams, CISO, GRC International Group. |
Abstract |
Ransomware has been a major threat to organisations and individual over the
last few years. Infections waned at the end of last year but have risen in the
first half of this year with new code innovations and much more targeted
approach being deployed. The LockerGoga ransomware, for example, hit a
Norwegian manufacturing company and halted production in several of its plants
in March, eventually resulting in over US$ 55 million (£45 million) in
financial losses. And the city of Baltimore, Maryland, had incurred US$ 5.3
million (£4.3 million) in recovery costs after its systems were infected with
the Robin Hood ransomware in May. This presentation looks at the phenomenon of
ransomware and reviews the ransomware kill chain detailing the stages a
ransomware attack goes through. There will be a review of a case study of a
blended attack that cumulated in ransomware denotating which involving an
agricultural company in the UK. We will finish by going the steps that can help
to protect you against attack.
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Profile | Geraint Williams is the CISO at GRC International Group. Geraint is a
knowledgeable and experienced Information Security consultant with experience
including vulnerability testing, digital forensics, secure networking, and
wireless security issues. Geraint has a strong technical knowledge of security
and IT infrastructure including high performance computing. Geraint has a
number of certifications in security and digital forensics including CISSP,
CISA, CEH and CHFI and is a Qualified Security Assessor for the Payment Card
Industry (PCI). |
Agenda |
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18:30 |
Registration, refreshments and networking |
18:45 |
Presentation - Ransomware! Kill chain and Defence! |
19:45 |
AGM |
20:00 |
Continue Networking |
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