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title: "Webinar: The Cost of Ransomware on Business"
description: Learn how ransomware became a leading cyber threat, review lessons from major attacks, and explore practical prevention strategies.
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June 15, 2018

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# Webinar: The Cost of Ransomware on Business

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 Cybercrime expert Eric O’Neill talks about the surging malware threat that is [ransomware](https://www.acronis.com/en-us/solutions/ransomware-protection/). O’Neill draws on his background and discusses:

*   How ransomware became the world’s single largest security incident threat and what businesses need to know to prevent these attacks 
*   The lessons to be learned from recent widespread ransomware epidemics
*   A practical strategy in policies, procedures and top technologies to defeat ransomware

[Anti-Ransomware](https://www.acronis.com/en/resource-center/tag/anti-ransomware/)