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Jeff Lanza spent over 20 years at the FBI, tracking and investigating organized cyber crime. In a joint interview with Nathan Steiner, Head of Systems Engineering ANZ, Veeam in conversation with ETCIO, talks about the growing number of ransomware attacks and how the dark web continues to proliferate the sale of these attack tools for anyone to use.

Lanza also talks about the challenges the FBI and other law enforcement agencies face when trying to catch cyber criminals given the limited coordination between agencies.

Organizations of all sizes have been impacted by ransomware attacks in the past couple of years and the attacks are only growing. Lanza in the interview talks about how organizations can secure themselves from falling victims and if they do, what should they do about it.