I just got back from RSA, and with over 700 sessions during the conference, there were certainly no shortage of thought-provoking material on current and future cybersecurity challenges. For me, a significant takeaway was that ransomware is now a big problem – and it’s getting worse. It’s popular with criminals because it’s proven to work, giving them a lucrative business model that doesn’t require much effort. So far ransomware has attacked ‘softer targets’ such as home users, small businesses, hospitals, transit authorities and local government. And while larger enterprises don’t seem to have been hit hard, it could be that they have been able to contain incidents - or that they are simply not reporting them.

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