John Shier, Senior Security Advisor at Sophos, joins the podcast this week for a deep dive into today’s ransomware threat landscape and insights uncovered in the recent Sophos research reports, including the “2022 State of Ransomware Report” and “Active Adversary Playbook”. We explore future state themes of ransomware such as the geopolitics of ransomware, simultaneous attack and dwell time trends, will we ever get to a ransomware ‘flat fee’, increasing the resilience requirement for companies seeking cyber insurance, and industries such as healthcare that are seeing sizable upticks in attacks (and how these can be mitigated ahead). John Shier, Senior Security Advisor at Sophos John Shier is a senior security advisor at Sophos with more than two decades of cybersecurity experience. He’s passionate about protecting consumers and organizations from advanced threats, and has researched everything from costly ransomware to illicit dark web activity, uncovering insights needed to strengthen proactive cybersecurity defenses. John is often consulted by press, and has been quoted in publications like Reuters, WIRED, Fortune, CNN, The Hill, Fast Co, Yahoo, and more. He’s also a frequent speaker at industry events like RSA Conference, Infosec, Cebit, Gitex, and more. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e193