Rafe Pilling is a security researcher at Secureworks Counter Threat Unit, where he focuses on cyber threat intelligence.

Pilling has over 13 years of experience in the cyber security industry and is recognised as an expert in the field. Pilling holds his Honours in Computer Science and Management Science from the University of Edinburgh and a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Networking and Web Technologies from Edinburgh Napier University.

In this episode of What’s Next in Security, Pilling says that there has been a significant increase in both the scale and frequency of malicious cyber activity – with ransomware being one of the more prolific threats.