Joseph Carson
Joseph is an award-winning cybersecurity professional with over 30 years of experience in enterprise security. As the Chief Security Evangelist and Advisory CISO at Segura, he focuses on identity security and building resilient cybersecurity strategies.
Joseph holds CISSP and OSCP certifications, advises governments and critical infrastructure sectors, and speaks globally on cybersecurity topics. He is the author of Cybersecurity for Dummies, read by more than 50,000 professionals worldwide, and regularly contributes to leading publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Dark Reading. Joseph regularly shares his knowledge and experience giving workshops on vulnerability assessments, patch management best practices, the evolving cybersecurity perimeter, and the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Session
Take a front-row seat as a hacker as we walk through a real-world ransomware attack that nearly cost a company €20 million. This live session dissects the attacker’s every move — from the first foothold to domain-wide compromise — showing exactly how the hackers operated and how we traced their digital footprints.
Led by the ethical hacker who spearheaded the incident response, we’ll dive into the attacker’s playbook: privilege escalation, lateral movement, data exfiltration, and finally, the ransom demand that threatened to shut the business down. More importantly, you’ll see how decisive actions during the investigation and response ultimately found an alternative recovery than the ransom payment and saved the organization millions.
This isn’t a theoretical case study — it’s a hands-on journey through the mind of an adversary, balanced with the defender’s responses. Attendees will leave with hacker-focused insights, practical defense strategies, and hard-earned lessons that could one day mean the difference between paying millions… or saving them.