Kaspersky EU Cyber Policy Forum: Ransomware 2.0

Event date
10/7/2021
Location
Online
Published
9/20/2021

10.00-11.15 BST

Although the threat of ransomware is not new, it has recently become a major challenge for European citizens, businesses and even states.

In the last few years, a number of advanced, targeted ransomware attacks have caused significant damage to European economies and societies, crippling critical institutions such as hospitals in the process. As a result, the problem has now entered the global political arena, and leaders of the European Union and other countries have expressed their commitment to work together to address the urgent and escalating threat of criminal ransomware networks that pose risks to citizens and companies.

While some well-established and successful projects to address ransomware – such as the global NoMoreRansom initiative – already exist, there is still room for improvement regarding greater coordination and cooperation between relevant actors in the wider cybersecurity ecosystem.

Presenting the perspectives of these actors, including law enforcement, the industry, the cyber security community and the public sector, the EU Cyberpolicy Forum will give an overview of the current changes in the ransomware threat landscape and will discuss how an effective joint strategy to tackle ransomware could look like.

The next edition of the Kaspersky EU Cyberpolicy Forum series aims to contribute to this discussion, gathering top-class speakers from different stakeholder groups and regions:

Eugene Kaspersky, CEO, Kaspersky

Dan Cîmpean, General Director, CERT-RO

Philipp Amann, Head of Unit for Expertise and Stakeholder Management, Europol EC3

Haya Shulman, Head of Cybersecurity Analytics and Defenses, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT

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