What is Ransomware?

You've probably heard the term ransomware used recently in the news. Between the Colonial Pipeline attack, attacks against local governments, school systems, etc., ransomware is everywhere in the news these days.

But what is ransomware? How does it work? How can you protect yourself from it?

In this lightboard video, Bradley Knapp with IBM Cloud, answer these questions and much more as he explains how ransomware can affect both your personal local machine, as well as a large enterprise, and what you can do to defense yourself against malicious attacks.

#Ransomware #Malware #CloudSecurity

[tannerschumacher]

Brad's speaking style really makes these subjects easy to listen to. Every one of his videos I thoroughly look forward to.

[PranavBhattarai]

Wow. Amazing flow and confidence. Loved it. I want IBM Cloud to make more videos and ignore the view counts.
Sending my love from Nepal.

[Oscar-xm]

Thank you for sharing and appreciate your flow and effort on posting this great content. I encourage you to keep posting IT related videos more.

[maddieg]

This the best vedio for introduction on Ransomware !! Thank you 😊

[jeandy]

I'm surprised that he did not speak about the human dimension. In a company, workers may open emails and download attachments which contain malicious code. For example an Excel file with macros. In this case scenario, the machine is not the problem, but the user.

[garethjohn]

I take it the Under armour logo is on your left side? Either that or you're amazing at writing backwards.

[omhe]

Wow, Great... Is there a way or a pattern on which, the victim could know which Backup is prior to the Vulnerability Injection?

[evolvemga]

This is great! Anyone who is looking for more info on ransomware should check the video out

[davidanam]

What do you do when the company does not want to spend on backups?

[Njs]

How to check if my backup already have Ransomeware?

[berserkerwolf]

I got hit with ransomware last week. I logged on to my FB, but its locked. Can ransomware hack my social media accounts?

[irfankhan-hdit]

how to recover the encrypted files by "woit"

[RushikeshJoshi]

In today's increasingly online world advancements also mean more vulnerabilities and loopholes to exploit, which makes it easier for malicious software to take control of the systems running older versions of the software or OS, thank you IBM for educating everyone about this as this can have severe consequences if left unchecked, kudos!!

[sharky]

Don´t use Windows 95, use XP. and you are safe!!!😂