2025 Houston Symposium
Ransomware Preparedness: Lessons From Real-World Incidents
In-person Event
Time
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM CT
Location
Ransomware Preparedness: Lessons From Real-World Incidents
According to Verizon’s 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, ransomware remains the top threat across 92% of industries, with roughly one-third of all breaches involving ransomware or some other extortion technique. In this symposium, we’ll use digital forensics and incident response reports from real-world incidents to walk through the tactics, techniques and procedures of top ransomware gangs and share lessons learned to help you avoid the same fate. Topics covered include:
- Where and how threat actors are gaining initial access
- Which tools key adversaries are using to establish command and control
- Insights, lessons learned and defensive measures to take to improve your detection and response capabilities
Audience
This event is for IANS clients and invited guests — there is no vendor sponsorship or presence.
Venue Information:
Speakers
Jake Williams
IANS Faculty
Jake Williams (aka MalwareJake) is a seasoned security researcher with decades of experience in technology and security. Jake is a former startup founder, former senior SANS instructor and course author, and an intelligence community and military veteran. He loves forensics, incident response, cyber threat intelligence and offensive methodologies. Today, Jake is an IANS faculty member, an independent security consultant, and is performing security-focused research to benefit the broader community. He has had the honor of twice winning the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3) annual digital forensics challenge. You may also know Jake from one of his many conference talks, webcasts, media appearances or his postings about cybersecurity.
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