The dangers of ransomware, a podcast with Brian Gill. Learn how investing in data security will protect you from the dangers of ransomware.

Brian Gill is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and angel investor. Brian currently serves as Chairman of Gillware, which provides cyber risk assessments, data recovery, incident response, and digital forensics services. He is a co-founder of Phoenix Nuclear Labs and served on PNLs board from inception to when it decided to spin-off SHINE Medical Technologies. Those two companies have raised over 100 million dollars of venture capital and employ hundreds of people in Wisconsin.

In this episode, Brian will be talking about the dangers of ransomware and how it can affect your data security if you don’t do anything about it. It’s important that online threats like this must be prevented to ensure no one becomes a victim ever again.

What you will learn from this episode about the dangers of ransomware:

• How Brian first began a successful data recovery business before getting involved in funding nuclear science technology research
• How the rise in ransomware attacks has helped position Brian’s data recovery business as an industry specialist spinoff of the main business
• How the dangers of ransomware is used by criminals to can gain access to your network, and how “social engineering” scams are the keys they use to get in
• How criminals will encrypt all the data in your network and then blackmail you into paying large sums of money to release your own data
• Why many of these criminals work for state-sponsored criminal syndicates and aren’t even breaking the law in their local jurisdiction
• Why too many business owners are reticent to spend money on security systems, leaving their businesses vulnerable in ways they may not even understand
• How to avoid the dangers of ransomware by investing into your data security and prevent or minimize costly financial disasters later
• Brian shares some of the early challenges he encountered and mistakes he made and discusses the key lessons he learned
• Why choosing your investment partners to raise capital for your business is vital, and why the right investors can bring more than just money to the table
• How Brian uses both internal and external marketing and thought leadership as a powerful way to repurpose content and connect with existing and new audiences

Resources:

• Website: www.gillware.com
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/brian-gill-68997a38/
• Read about an in-depth look into the dangers of ransomware

Additional Resources:

• Sell With Authority by Drew McLellan and Stephen Woessner: https://amzn.to/39y7x13
• Predictive ROI Free Resource Library: https://predictiveroi.com/resources/
• Stephen Woessner’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner/
• Apart from the dangers of ransomware, get to know all about the other cyber threats