NetDiligence President Mark Greisiger discusses ransomware negotiation with Coveware CEO and cofounder Bill Siegel, as well as how to create a data breach response plan.

A Q&A with Winston Krone, Kivu Unfortunately, for now, it appears that ransomware attacks, wherein hackers encrypt data and hold the decryption key for a sum of money, are here to stay. That leaves the attacked organization with a tough quandary: whether or not to actually give in to the criminal’s demands. We talked to…

A Q&A with Winston Krone of Kivu Consulting There’s no doubt that ransomware attacks are on the rise and they’re becoming more insidious. I spoke with Winston Krone, global managing director of Kivu Consulting about what the latest version of ransomware looks like and what risk managers should do if it strikes their organization.

A Q&A with Luke Emrich of RSM Recently, a lawyer contacted us, inquiring about how to find and obtain bitcoins for a client’s data that was being held ransom. As ransomware becomes more common, more organizations will need to ask hard questions about how and when to pay off criminals to protect their data. I…