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Ivanti Insights Episode 10: Ransomware: From the '80s Floppy Disk Days to Today

Ivanti

Today I’m joined by our usual cast, Ivanti’s Chief Security Officer Phil Richards and Senior Director, Product Management, Chris Goettl. If we go back to early 2018 and before that, ransomware was an opportunistic attack and was spread by malware. Back in 1989, the first ransomware attack was documented and called AIDS Trojan.

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A Day in the Life of a Business-Aligned Cybersecurity Leader

Tenable

I've been on the technical end performing penetration tests and malware analysis. In my current role at Tenable, I manage vendor relationships for 40 security tools and can tell you, with a fair degree of granularity, what each of those tools is doing on a daily basis and how it's performing.