Past Webinar

The Evolution of Ransomware – from 1989 to 2025

View Net-Defence’s free on-demand webinar, The Evolution of Ransomware – from 1989 to 2025, delivered by Managing Director Debra Cairns. This session takes you on a journey from the first floppy disk attack to today’s complex threat landscape, highlighting trends in payments, recovery, and future regulation. You’ll also gain practical tips on ransomware prevention to strengthen your organisation’s resilience.

The Evolution of Ransomware – from 1989 to 2025

The Evolution of Ransomware – from 1989 to 2025

View Net-Defence’s free on-demand webinar, The Evolution of Ransomware – from 1989 to 2025, delivered by Managing Director Debra Cairns. This session takes you on a journey from the first floppy disk attack to today’s complex threat landscape, highlighting trends in payments, recovery, and future regulation. You’ll also gain practical tips on ransomware prevention to strengthen your organisation’s resilience.

Webinar details

We’d love to invite you to view Net-Defence’s latest on-demand webinar, providing you with insight into the evolution of ransomware from 1989 to 2025, as well as tips for prevention.

Delivered by Net-Defence’s Managing Director, Debra Cairns, in this session, she explores:

· What ransomware is

· The history of ransomware – from the first floppy disk to the present day

· The current threat landscape – threat and payment/recovery trends

· 2025 and beyond – potential outlawing of payments

· Ransomware prevention

Net-Defence is proud to support businesses with their resilience, and this session aims to provide you and your organisation with key information and actions to help you stay ahead and remain secure and protected.


About the Contributor
Before joining Net-Defence, I worked for multinational consumer goods corporation, Proctor & Gamble (P&G), gaining over 19 years of finance and IT experience that I have brought with me to my current role. From 2018 onwards, I have worked for Net-Defence, and in 2020 stepped into the role as Managing Director, building a team of...

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