Trevor Hawthorn

Trevor joined the Wombat team in October 2015 with the acquisition of ThreatSim , where he was co-founder and CTO. Trevor has a technical and hands-on background, with over eighteen years of information security experience in both consulting and enterprise security across a wide-range of industries. Besides being a regular presenter to the FBI NIPC classes at Quantico, VA, he has held positions at Earthlink, UUNET, Cybertrust (now Verizon Enterprise Security Solutions), and in 2005 co-founded Stratum Security, a security consulting boutique where ThreatSim was developed.

Ransomware: Understanding and avoiding it

Data Breach, Encryption, Malware, Phishing, Ransomware, Security Awareness, Social Engineering / By Trevor Hawthorn

Ransomware has come back into the spotlight, with a Krebs on Security report highlighting a recent attack targeting Linux Web servers—in addition to consumers and business users. Though ransomware itself isn’t anything new, this approach is unique in that after […]

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