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The list of high-profile ransomware attacks on businesses and infrastructure grows more alarming by the week, impacting everything from gas pipelines and meat supplies to ferries. Learn about the prevalence of these attacks, their possible origins, how to protect your business, and what to do if you become a victim.

Warren Axelrod

C. Warren Axelrod is Research Director for Financial Services for the US Cyber Consequences Unit. Previously, he was the Business Information Security Officer and Chief Privacy Officer for U.S. Trust. He was a founding member of the FS/ISAC in 1999 and represented financial services’ cybersecurity interests in the National Information Center in Washington, DC during Y2K. He testified before the U.S. Congress on cybersecurity in 2001.

Warren was honored with the prestigious Information Security Executive Luminary Leadership Award in 2007, and received Computerworld Premier 100 and Best in Class awards in 2003. He won the 2009 ISACA Michael P. Cangemi Best Article Award for an article on security metrics.
Warren’s more recent books include Engineering Safe and Secure Software Systems (2012), Outsourcing Information Security (2004), and Enterprise Information Security and Privacy (2009), published by Artech House.

He earned a Ph.D. in managerial economics from Cornell University, as well as a B.Sc. in electrical engineering and an M.A. in economics and statistics, both with honors, from Glasgow University. He is certified as a CISSP and CISM, and is a member of IEEE, ACM, (ISC)2, and ISACA.

Frank Imburgio

As president of Desktop Solutions, Frank is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of all major projects. He also designs many of the database architectures that drive our more complex applications. Frank is an IEEE Certified Software Engineering Master with over 30 years experience in SQL, PHP, Javascript, Ajax, HTML/CSS, Unix, Data Analysis, C++, Linux, Microsoft platforms, E-Commerce Deployment, Project Management, System Architecture and Cloud Engineering.

Before founding Desktop Solutions in 1996, he was Senior Database Administrator for Long Island Savings Bank and Assistant Vice President at Dean Witter Financial Services, where he was responsible for designing, developing and supporting custom software. Frank’s wide array of programming knowledge is also invaluable in legacy integration projects.