Allan Liska

Allan Liska has more than 20 years of experience in ransomware and information security. He provides ransomware-related counsel and key recommendations to major global corporations and government agencies, sitting on national ransomware task forces and speaking at global conferences. He has worked as a both a security practitioner and an ethical hacker at Symantec, iSIGHT Partners, FireEye, and Recorded Future.
Recent posts by Allan Liska

There is a lot of excellent advice readily available about how to protect against ransomware attacks. But the unfortunate truth for many organizations is that, much like Alanis Morrissette, it is “…the good advice that you just didn’t take.” A lot of ransomware protection advice is aimed at organizations with a large enough security budget […]

Bernalillo County, New Mexico, started off 2022 the victim of a ransomware attack. Not a lot is known about the attack at the time of this writing, but it has all of the hallmarks of a ransomware attack against a municipality: But there is an interesting side note on the county’s status page: Vendors for […]