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Ransomware: What Every Corporate Executive Needs to Know

| Oct. 30, 2017

It’s Friday afternoon before the New Year’s holiday. A Fortune 500 CEO gets a call from her company’s general counsel: “We’ve been hit by ransomware. We are locked out of our network and can’t communicate with our customers. The hackers demanded $30,000 in Bitcoin in the next 24 hours.”

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