Ep 109: Understanding How Cybercriminals Operate Can Protect Your Business

In today’s cyber landscape, business leaders and security professionals need every edge they can gain to better protect their organizations and plan their defense against attackers. . Why do hackers do what they do? What are they trying to steal from you? Who do they partner with to make money and avoid getting caught? In this episode, hosted by John Verry, CISO and Managing Partner at Pivot Point Security,  sits down with Raveed Laeb, Vice President of Product for KELA, who provides answers and explanations to explain the cybercrime business models, supply chains, and operational strategies. Join us as we discuss: · How understanding your financially motivated adversaries can directly benefit your cybersecurity posture, incident response, and executive decision-making · “Business models” and “supply chains” that hackers use to monetize your assets (which can be a lot more than just your data) · What you need to hear to dispel any lingering notion that your org has nothing hackers want · How and why bad actors are increasingly specializing based on skill sets, and where and how they choose their business partners · How forward-looking businesses are using cyber threat intelligence (CTI) to reduce cyber riskTo hear this episode, and many more like it, we would encourage you to follow the Virtual CISO Podcast here. You can find all our full length and short form video episodes on our YouTube here. To Stay up to date with the newest podcast releases, follow us on LinkedIn here.  Listening on a desktop & can't see the links? Just search for The Virtual CISO Podcast in your favorite podcast player.