Ben Wuest
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Ben Wuest is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Security Intelligence within the Security Division at IBM. Ben works with a worldwide team of technologists to shape the future of the IBM Security Division. He holds a Masters in Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, NB, Canada where he currently resides.
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Will You Be The Next Victim Of Ransomware?
September 11, 2017
Ransomware is malicious software that has been covertly installed on a device, such as your laptop or phone, which encrypts your private data and demands a monetary ransom for restoring the data to its original format. If the data is highly sensitive, the ransom may be the threat of public disclosure of the private data. […]