Dr. Bernard Jones, Assistant Professor at St. John’s University, teaches courses in homeland security, business continuity, emergency management, and critical infrastructure protection. Jones is a certified business continuity and emergency management professional and is passionate and focused on assisting organizations in quantifying their resilience posture while driving toward enhancing disaster preparedness. He continues to center on how to help impart a culture of disaster preparedness, serving as a means toward enhanced “resilience”.From the Winter 2021 Issue
Risk Mitigation
What You Don’t Know About Ransomware Can be a Risk
Author(s):
-Dr. Michael C. Redmond, Director of Information Security and Risk Management, Redmond Worldwide (Author)
Bradford P. Meisel, Esq., Associate, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP (Co-author)
Diane D. Reynolds, Partner, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP (Co-author)
Dr. Bernard A. Jones, CBCP, Assistant Professor, St. John’s University (Co-author)
Syed Taha Ahmed Jafri, Information Security Specialist, First Women Bank (Co-author)
Unfortunately, organizations continue to suffer debilitating impacts on operations due to both natural and human-made threats. One human-made threat, which continues to top the list of risks that organizations fear the most, is cybercrime. Cybercrime comes in many different forms, with ransomware specifically cited as the preeminent threat that impacts organizations worldwide. The severe ransomware … Read more
