Best Practices to Limit an Organization's Ransomware Risk from a Legal Perspective

Overview

Cybersecurity risk management requires both technical preparation and legal and strategic planning. This seminar provides an overview of ransomware and the threat landscape, a brief primer on technical risk-management practices, and a deep dive into non-technical strategies from a legal perspective, including cyber risk assessments, adhering to regulatory cybersecurity standards through corporate policy, defining stakeholder roles during an event, and purchasing adequate cyber insurance. It concludes with key top-down strategies to mitigate ransomware.

What you’ll learn

• ✓Describe the ransomware threat landscape and what attackers target
• ✓Summarize the technical considerations for defending against ransomware
• ✓Apply non-technical, legal-perspective strategies such as risk assessments, policy, and insurance
• ✓Implement key top-down strategies to mitigate ransomware risk

Curriculum

1. 1. Overview of the Ransomware Risk

   How ransomware is used and what attackers seek and target.

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2. 2. Primer of the Technical Considerations

   Technical risk-management practices against ransomware.

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3. 3. Non-Technical Considerations from a Legal Perspective

   Risk assessments, regulatory standards, corporate policy, and insurance.

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4. 4. Key Strategies to Mitigate the Threat of Ransomware

   Top-down strategies and practices.

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Your instructors

Daniel B. Garrie

Founder, Law & Forensics; Neutral at JAMS; Faculty at Harvard

Law & Forensics LLC · JAMS · Harvard · Rutgers Law School · Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare

Daniel B. Garrie is the founder and executive managing partner of Law & Forensics LLC, a boutique cybersecurity and forensic engineering firm he co-founded in 2008. He serves as a neutral, arbitrator, and forensic special master at JAMS, focusing on cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and complex technology disputes, and holds faculty appointments at Harvard and Rutgers Law School. A patented software inventor and prolific author, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare and a widely cited authority on computer forensics, eDiscovery, and cyber litigation.

Shraddha Patil

Director Product Management, Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks

Shraddha Patil is Director of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks. She speaks on limiting an organization's ransomware risk, including the ransomware threat landscape and the technical and strategic considerations for defending against it.

Chris Campbell

SVP, CISO, Head of Technology, Bitsight

Bitsight

Chris Campbell is SVP, CISO, and Head of Technology at Bitsight. He brings a chief-information-security-officer perspective to reducing organizational ransomware risk, covering both the technical controls and the legal and strategic planning that support cyber risk management.