Ransomware and Data Extortion

About the Authors

Ryan Golden has a strong background in marketing and leadership roles across the security industry and is currently serving as the CMO at anti-ransomware innovator Halcyon. Prior to that, Golden worked as the Vice President of Marketing at ShiftLeft, Inc. Ryan has significant experience in building successful brands, as demonstrated by his role as VP of Design & Creative at Cylance, Inc., where they developed and built the disruptive Cylance brand from pre-revenue to a $1.4B acquisition by BlackBerry. Golden is a technical CMO with deep experience in defending organizations against ransomware operations and other advanced attack scenarios.

Anthony M. Freed is a strategic communications leader who is director of comms and threat research at Halcyon. Freed is an award-winning writer and producer who was previously a freelance security journalist who authored ground-breaking investigations, is a keynote speaker and presenter at major security conferences, moderated the Cybersecurity Forum Panel at the 2016 Republican National Convention, was a member of the U.S. Security Journalist Delegation to Israel, has authored multiple articles for professional academic publications, is an ambassador for Hacker Highschool, and is communications advisor at Cyber Security Forum Initiative. Freed is also the principal researcher who produces the quarterly Halcyon report “Power Rankings: Ransomware Malicious Quartile - Inside Data Extortion Attacks.”