U.K.-based cybersecurity expert John Walker: Ransomware attacks are “low-cost in the macro sense and so easy to achieve” Walker implores organizations to build a robust offline backup strategy and not simply rely on online backups. Walker is a visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University. He serves on the advisory board for the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Center in Cyber Security – KirCCS – at the University of Kent, and he formerly served in Royal Air Force security and counterintelligence. In a video interview with Information Security Media Group, Walker discusses:Misconceptions around our understanding of ransomware.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/understanding-real-threat-ransomware-a-17684