EP207 Slaying the Ransomware Dragon: Can a Startup Succeed?

Guest: Bob Blakley, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mimic Topics: Tell us about the ransomware problem - isn't this a bit of old news? Circa 2015, right? What makes ransomware a unique security problem?  What's different about ransomware versus other kinds of malware? What do you make of the "RansomOps" take (aka "ransomware is not malware")? Are there new ways to solve it? Is this really a problem that a startup is positioned to solve? Aren't large infrastructure owners better positioned for this? In fact, why haven't existing solutions solved this?  Is this really a symptom of a bigger problem?  What is that problem? What made you personally want to get into this space, other than the potential upside of solving the problem?  Resources: EP206 Paying the Price: Ransomware's Rising Stakes in the Cloud EP89 Can We Escape Ransomware by Migrating to the Cloud? EP45 VirusTotal Insights on Ransomware Business and Technology EP204 Beyond PCAST: Phil Venables on the Future of Resilience and Leading Indicators EP7 No One Expects the Malware Inquisition Anderson Report (July 1972)  "The Innovator Dilemma" book "Odyssey" book (yes, really) Crowdstrike External Technical Root Cause Analysis — Channel File 291 (yes, that one)