Cyber Hat Trick: How Ransomware Gangs Exfiltrate, Encrypt & Exploit – Matt Cauthorn – ESW #237
Exfiltrate. Encrypt. Exploit. In 2021, ransomware attackers moved beyond exfiltrating and encrypting data to extract a ransom, working to compromise the victim’s build server to introduce an exploit through which to launch large scale attacks. VP of Cloud Security Matt Cauthorn joins Security Weekly to walk through the lateral movements these attackers use to pull off the Cyber Hat Trick.
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Matt Cauthorn is responsible for all security implementations and leads a team of technical security engineers who work directly with customers and prospects. A passionate technologist and evangelist, Matt is often on site with customers working to solve the complex and mission-critical business problems that Fortune 1,000 and global 2,000 companies face. After years spent helping customers tap into the value offered by network-based analytics, Matt has been able to bring fresh thinking to security threat detection. Prior to ExtraHop, Matt was a Sales Engineering Manager at F5 and before that he started his career in the trenches as a practitioner where he oversaw application hosting, infrastructure, and security for five international data centers.