Brent Johnson, CISO at Bluefin

Brent Johnson is the Chief Information Security Officer at Bluefin. He is responsible for Bluefin’s security infrastructure and PCI-DSS/P2PE compliance programs. Brent has two decades of experience in information security, and he maintains an extensive consulting and assessment background within payments and critical infrastructure protection.

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Cyber Security Insights

Combat Double Extortion Ransomware Attacks by Devaluing Your Data

April 5, 2022

Devaluing data makes the information meaningless to bad actors regardless of how much data and which type of data is exfiltrated. This strategy prevents fraudsters from holding your data hostage during ransomware attacks — even if bad actors bypass your security measures, they can’t sell or expose the information.

Combat Double Extortion Ransomware Attacks by Devaluing Your Data

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