Join MSP360 along with Nick Cavalancia from Conversational Geek and Tyler Wrightson from Leet Cybersecurity as they discuss: - The ransomware reality – what’s really happening during ransomware attacks? - The ransomware aftermath – what state is a victim network in post-attack? - The ransomware recovery – what recovery efforts are really necessary to bring a business back to a state of operations? - The future of ransomware – what will ransomware look like in the coming year, and how should you prepare?

1. The Role of Backup and Recovery in
the New Ransomware Economy
Kurt Abrahams
CMO, MSP360
Nick Cavalancia
4-time Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter MVP, CEO of Conversational Geek
Tyler Wrightson
Founder, Leet Security
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2. Agenda
● The ransomware reality – what’s really happening during ransomware
attacks?
● The ransomware aftermath – what state is a victim network in post-attack?
● The ransomware recovery – what recovery efforts are really necessary to
bring a business back to a state of operations?
● The future of ransomware – what will ransomware look like in the coming
year and how should you prepare?
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3. The Ransomware Reality
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Extortion – seen in as high as 96% of attacks

4. The Ransomware Aftermath
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• What’s been affected, impacted, changed, left insecure?
• Data
• Systems
• Applications
• Accounts
• Directory Services
• Integration points

5. The Ransomware Recovery
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• What recovery efforts are needed?
• Its more than just getting back to a known-operational state…
Simple restore Full DR

6. The Future of Ransomware
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• Same to initial ransoms
• Encryption
• Exfiltration & Extortion
• More focus on how to put pressure on orgs to pay
• Likely new ways to disrupt using AI, deepfake audio, etc.

7. QUESTIONS?
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8. Manage. Support. Protect.