Ransomware and Digital Extortion: Should You Pay?

In this episode, we hear from Dan Pepper, Partner on BakerHostetler's Privacy and Data Protection team. He frequently handles security incidents, interacting with federal and state agencies and forensic service providers, and has overseen investigations including many cases of ransomware. How are attackers launching their ransomware attacks? Should you pay the ransom or not? Is it legal to pay a hacker's ransom demand? He answers these questions and more. Pepper spoke at the virtual SecureWorld Philadelphia New York and this is a part of his presentation. Resource Links: •  Daniel Pepper on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danpepperesq •  Trend Micro ransomware best practices: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/forHome/campaigns/ransomware-protection.html •  Trend Micro ransomware decryptor: https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/1114221-downloading-and-using-the-trend-micro-ransomware-file-decryptor •  SecureWorld VIRTUAL conferences: https://www.secureworldexpo.com/events The SecureWorld Sessions podcast gives you access to people and ideas that impact your cybersecurity career and help you secure your organization.