For years, I’ve watched teams get crushed by incidents they should have been ready for — not because they didn’t have the right tools, but because they didn’t have the right habits. Security is still a human sport, even with AI in the mix.

In this two-day, hands-on workshop, we’ll take a practical and very candid look at how ransomware operators actually work, how AI is changing the defensive landscape, and how your team can build repeatable habits that hold up under pressure.

We’ll break the workshop into three layers:

Industry Reality — how modern ransomware groups operate behind the scenes

Defensive Practice — a hands-on, step-by-step ransomware readiness plan

Human Systems — communication patterns, burnout safeguards, and response behaviors that make or break an IR effort

This isn’t a lecture. You’ll build artifacts — playbooks, tabletop scenarios, AI-assisted workflows, and quick-deploy user-training material — that you can take straight back to your organization.