Nexus: A Claroty Podcast
Nexus is a cybersecurity podcast hosted by Claroty Editorial Director Mike Mimoso. Nexus will feature discussions with cybersecurity leaders responsible for the security and protection of cyber-physical systems. Guests include cybersecurity researchers, executives, innovators, and influencers, discussing the topics affecting cybersecurity professionals in OT, IoT, and IoMT environments.
Nexus: A Claroty Podcast
Christiaan Beek on Ransomware's Evolution and Economics
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Rapid7 Senior Director of Threat Analytics Christiaan Beek joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the technical evolution and economic models that maintain ransomware's viability among threat actors. Ransomware became a for-profit threat more than a decade ago and has progressed into the No. 1 threat facing many critical infrastructure organizations.
In this episode, Beek covers extortion characteristics, the stealthiness of some attacks, and how the future may include hardware-based ransomware that maintains indefinite persistence.